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Decentralization and Self-Government in Russia, 1830-1870
By (Author) Frederick S. Starr
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
320.9470903
Hardback
402
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
The turbulent period of renewal and innovation that followed Russia's crushing defeat in the Crimea has been interpreted, historically, in terms of the emancipation of the serfs and the evolution of the gentry class. But, contends Frederick Starr, such an approach underestimates the breadth and intensity of the impulse for local reforms per se. Aft