Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia

231 Pages·2022·11.406 MB·English

by  Peter Waldron

REVOLUTION
Volume 3
BETWEEN TWO
REVOLUTIONS

BETWEEN TWO
REVOLUTIONS
Stolypin and the Politics of
Renewal in Russia
PETER WALDRON
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Between two revolutions
Stolypin and the politics of renewal in Russia
Peter Waldron
University of Sunderland
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Contents
Preface vi
Note on conventions and transliteration viii
Introduction 1
1 Reform or repression? The dilemma of tsarism 4
2 Renewing Russia: Stolypin's programme 51
3 Institutional failure: the paralysis of parliament 94
4 The mobilization of conservative opinion 115
5 Reform defeated 147
6 Conclusion: between two revolutions 178
Notes 187
Bibliography 205
Index 217
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Preface
I am very grateful to the many people who have helped in the
writing of this book. My initial work on this period was super-
vised by Olga Crisp, and her deep knowledge of imperial Russia,
together with her generosity of spirit, have been of enduring
value. The annual meetings of the Study Group on the Russian
Revolution have provided an ideal forum for debating issues in a
comradely atmosphere, and members of the Study Group have
both provided specific advice and contributed to my overall think-
ing on Russia before 1917. Simon Dixon and Bob McKean very
generously took the time to read the entire text and make many
comments that have much improved the book. I am also grateful
to Jeremy Black, John Burnett, Peter Durrans and Don MacRaild
who have been of particular assistance during the writing of the
book.
Librarians and archivists in Europe and America have
assisted in locating and providing material. In Russia, the staff
of the Russian State Historical Archive in St Petersburg have
been exceptionally helpful on successive visits. I am also grate-
ful to the staffs of the State Archive of the Russian Federation
in Moscow and of the Russian National Library in St Peters-
burg. In Finland, the Slavonic Department of Helsinki Univer-
sity Library has provided an ideal environment for summertime
research. The staffs of the British Library and the library of the
School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London have
always been of the greatest assistance. The interlibrary loan
staff of the University of Sunderland have helped locate a mul-
titude of obscure materials with efficiency and good humour. In
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America, the staff of the libraries of Harvard University were of
great assistance.
Clare Crowley has commented on the text in detail. Her contri-
bution to the book's completion has been, in this and many other
ways, inestimable.
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