Emerging democracy in late Imperial Russia :case studies on local self-government (the Zemstvos), State Duma elections, the Tsarist government, and the State Council before and during World War I
附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The tsarist government's preoccupation with the "Liberal Party" in Tver' Province, 1890-1905 -- The Zemstvo and the transformation of Russian society -- Liberals in the provinces : the Kadets and the Duma elections in Saratov, 1906-1912 -- P.A. Stolypin, Marxists, and liberals versus owners of pharmacies and pharmaceutical firms in late Imperial Russia -- The policy of the Russian government toward Finland, 1905-1917 : a case study of the nationalities question in the last years of the Russian Empire -- Nationalist politics in the Russian Imperial State Council : forming a new majority, 1909-1910 -- The democratization of the Zemstvo during the First World War -- Interregional conflicts and the collapse of tsarism : the real reason for the food crisis in Russia after the autumn of 1916.
