Russia Under the Last Tsar

This collection provides scholars and students with a wide-ranging overview of the issues, events and personalities of the two turbulent decades before the 1917 revolution in Russia.

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Radical Socialists. 1. The Mensheviks (Andre Liebich). 2. The Bolsheviks (Robert C. Williams). 3. The Bund in the Russian-Jewish Historical Landscape (Alexander Lokshin). 4. Neo-Populism in Early Twentieth-Century Russia: The Socialist-Revolutionary Party from 1900 to 1917 (Michael Melancon). Part II: The Other Adversaries. 5. The Anarchists and the "Obscure Extremist" (Anna Geifman). 6. National Minorities in the Russian Empire, 1897-1917 (Theodore Weeks). Part III: "The Loyal Opposition" and the Russian Right. 7.The State Duma: A Political Experiment (John Morison). 8. Liberalism and Democracy: The Constitutional Democratic Party (Melissa Stockdale). 9. The Union of 17 October (Dmitrii Pavlov). 10. Hopeless Symbiosis: Power and Right-Wing Radicalism at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (Aleksandr Bokhanov). Part IV: The Establishment. 11. The Security Police and Politics in the Late Imperial Russia (Jonathan Daly). 12 Legislative Chamber History Overlooked: The State Council of the Russian Empire, 1906-1917 (Alexandra Koros). 13 Church and Politics in Late Imperial Russia: Crisis and Radicalization of the Clergy (Gregory Freeze). Index.