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Michael Speransky

Statesman of Imperial Russia 1772–1839

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  1. Marc Raeff
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. The Beginnings

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 1-28

  3. The “Constitutionalism” of Emperor Alexander I

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 29-48

  4. Administrative Activities 1802–1812

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 49-81

  5. Reform of Russia’s Finances and Central Administration

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 82-118

  6. Plans of Reform

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 119-169

  7. Disgrace and Exile

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 170-203

  8. Philosophical Views and Political Theory

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 204-227

  9. Governing Russia’s Provinces

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 228-279

  10. Projects for Reforming the Provincial Administration

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 280-307

  11. An Unpleasant Interlude Speransky and the Decembrists

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 308-319

  12. Codifying Russian Law

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 320-346

  13. Last Years — Conclusion

    • Marc Raeff
    Pages 347-367

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 368-387
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"An autocracy tempered by assassination", clever foreigners used to say about the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. With this bon mot the average curiosity about the Tsars' government was satisfied and there seemed to be no need to look further into the matter. There was, on the surface of things, some justification for such a definition: many rulers had suffered violent death and little did the autocracy abate between 1725 and 1905. The impression created by travelers, by historians and journalists, as well as by Russia's own discontented intelligentsia was that nothing really ever changed in Russia, that the autocracy was the same in 1905 as it had been at the death of Peter the Great in 1725. Not that the outside world had remained ignorant of the efforts at reform, the changes, and the modernization wrought in Russia since the day Peter I had "cut a window into Europe. " But the prevailing opinion was that such changes as occurred were merely external and did not affect the fundamental structure of the government or of society.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Michael Speransky

  • Book Subtitle: Statesman of Imperial Russia 1772–1839

  • Authors: Marc Raeff

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9304-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1957

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-8547-9Published: 01 January 1957

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-9304-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 387

  • Topics: History, general, Political Science

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