Russia's Rulers Under the Old Regime

Yale University Press

1989

xxii, 407 pages

Includes bibliographical references and index

9780300043716

From the Tartars to the 20th century - the state and its rulers; profile of an elite; educating rulers; the roads to power; the many faces of the beast; P.N. Durnovo - the policeman as sage and prophet; A.N. Kulomzin - a Russian Victorian; aristocrats in politics - the brothers Alexander and Aleksei Obolensky; autocracy, bureaucracy, catastrophe. Appendices: a note on sources; men appointed to the State Council 1894-1914; Russian State institutions

Examines the lives and politics of important members of Tsar Nicholas II's government - the 215 men appointed by Nicholas to his State Council. It looks at the balance of power between bureaucrats and their monarchs, at the role and personality of Nicholas II and at the coming Russian Revolution

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