THE ABOLITION OF SERFDOM IN RUSSIA by David Moon ( 9780582294868 )

Item Details

Title:

THE ABOLITION OF SERFDOM IN RUSSIA
1762-1907

By:

David Moon

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£38.99

Our price:

£35.09

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£3.90

ISBN 10:

058229486X

ISBN 13:

9780582294868

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

2 January, 2002

Series:

Seminar Studies

Pages:

232

Description:

Written in an engaging and accessible manner, this work traces the origins of the abolition of serfdom. It also shows how the reform process linked the old social, economic and political order of 18th-century Russia with the radical transformations of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Synopsis:

In February 1861 Tsar Alexander II issued the statutes abolishing the institution of serfdom in Russia. The procedures set in motion by Alexander II undid the ties that bound together 22 million serfs and 100,000 noble estate owners, and changed the face of Russia. Rather than presenting abolition as an 'event' that happened in February 1861, The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia presents the reform as a process. It traces the origins of the abolition of serfdom back to reforms in related areas in 1762 and forward to the culmination of the process in 1907. Written in an engaging and accessible manner, the book shows how the reform process linked the old social, economic and political order of eighteenth-century Russia with the radical transformations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that culminated in revolution in 1917.

Illustrations:

glossary, chronology, further reading

Publication:

Imprint:

Longman

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

ABOLITION OF SERFDOM IN RUSSIA