The History of Liberalism in Russia

Contents

v Foreword by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn vii Preface ix Notes on the Translation xi Introduction 1 part 1: THE HISTORY OF LIBERALISM, 1762–1855 Chapter 1: Catherine II 17 Chapter 2: Alexander I 31 Chapter 3: Speransky 38 Chapter 4: Karamzin 56 Chapter 5: The Codification of the Law 69 Chapter 6: Nicholas I 79 Chapter 7: Nicholas I (continued) 89 part 2: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL LIBERTY, 1856–1914 Chapter 8: The Emancipation of the Serfs 107 Chapter 9: The Emancipation Laws and Their Later Interpretation 115 Chapter 10: Peasant Law 124 Chapter 11: The Peasant Question in the Reign of Alexander III 133 Chapter 12: The Peasant Question in the Reign of Nicholas II before 1905 143 Chapter 13: The Agrarian Program of the Left-Wing Parties 155 Chapter 14: The Peasant Question after 1905 164 Chapter 15: The Peasant Question after 1905 (continued) 175 conTEnTS part 3: THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL LIBERTY, 1856–1914 Chapter 16: The History of Political Liberalism in the Reign of Alexander II 189 Chapter 17: The Period from 1881 to 1902 203 Chapter 18: The Liberation Movement 220 Chapter 19: Liberalism in 1904 227 Chapter 20: The Zemstvo Congresses 242 Chapter 21: Further Zemstvo Congresses and the Aggravation of the Revolutionary Situation 254 Chapter 22: The Manifesto of October 17, 1905, and the Constitution of April 23, 1906 269 Chapter 23: Witte and Public Opinion 283 Chapter 24: The Constitutional-Democratic Party and the Union of October 17 292 Chapter 25: The First Duma 300 Chapter 26: The Second Duma 311 Chapter 27: The Coup of June 3, 1907, and the Third and Fourth Dumas 321 Notes 331 Index of Names 371 vi • contents ...