P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial RussiaStanford University Press, 1 февр. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 468 This is the first comprehensive biography in any language of Russia s leading statesman in the period following the Revolution of 1905. Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1906 to 1911 (when he was assassinated), P. A. Stolypin aroused deep passions among his contemporaries as well as subsequent historians. In the twilight of Nicholas II s reign he was virtually the only man who seemed to have a clear notion of how to reform the socioeconomic and political system of the empire. His efforts in that direction--in agriculture, local administration, religious freedom, social legislation, the legal system--were radically new departures for the Russian state. His detractors disdained him as a power-hungry, coldhearted politician who was unscrupulous in pursuing his own career and would use any means to restore the tsarist autocracy following the frightening turbulence of 1905. Stolypin s admirers, however, argued that he was a man of vision who pursued policies that would have transformed the country into a modern state with social and political institutions comparable to those of the West. Lenin s celebrated denunciation of Stolypin as "hangman-in-chief set the tone for official Soviet work on his career. In the West, some historians and émigré writers, most notably Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, erred in the opposite direction. By contrast, this book--on the basis of extensive Russian archival documentation only recently available to historians--seeks to provide a balanced portrait of Stolypin that encompasses the complex, even divergent, impulses that motivated him. Although Stolypin did not shrink from the use of force to stamp out unrest, he lamented the shedding of blood and much preferred nonviolent means to curb the opposition. In foreign affairs, he was uncompromising in his insistence that Russia should avoid entanglements that could lead to military conflict. To be sure, he was deeply committed to monarchical rule, but he did not consider it advisable to abolish the elected legislature or to deprive it of its authority. Stolypin s program, a blend of reformism, authoritarianism, and nationalism, was more likely than any other to lead Russia toward social and political stability. But Tsar Nicholas II, his entourage, and ultra-conservatives could not bring themselves to yield a portion of their privileges and prerogatives in return for a reduced, though still significant, role in a changed Russia. They succeeded in undermining the Prime Minister s attempts at fundamental reform and thus scuttled Imperial Russia s last such attempt before its demise. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Early Years | 13 |
Governor of Saratov | 34 |
Fighting the Revolution AprilAugust 1906 | 97 |
Fighting the Revolution August 1906June 1907 | 150 |
Fighting for Reform | 208 |
Embattled | 261 |
Religion Nationalism Migration | 293 |
The Last Defeat | 327 |
Assassination | 363 |
Stolypins Legacy | 391 |
Notes | 403 |
Bibliography | 437 |
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