Russian Officialdom in Crisis : Autocracy and Local Self-Government, 1861-1900 (Hardcover)

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: old problems, new principles - tsarist government and the Great Reforms; 2. The birth of a new rural order: the state and local self-government, 1861?75; 3. The breakdown of tsarist administrative order, 1875?81; 4. The debate revived: state, social change, and ideologies of local self-government reform, 1881?5; 5. State control over local initiative: the Land Captain Statute of 1889; 6. The politics of the zemstvo counter-reform, 1888?90; 7. Conclusion; Tables.