The book offers a lucid overview of Russian history focusing, as stated in the title, on the discussion of the socio-political and economic reforms that contributed to reshape the overall political climate in the Tsarist empire between 1814-1914. Well written, the book stands on a set of ‘redlines’ that the author creates with great ability in order to explain the interrelation between different moments of Russian history. At the same time, however, he openly criticises, in some cases, the attempts fostered by the literature to envisage linkages between ideological systems that, on the contrary, he considers to be divided by “unbridgeable gulfs”.
Alexander Polunov, Russia in the Nineteenth century. Autocracy, Reform, and Social Changes, 1814-1914
BARBIERI, SARA
2009
Abstract
The book offers a lucid overview of Russian history focusing, as stated in the title, on the discussion of the socio-political and economic reforms that contributed to reshape the overall political climate in the Tsarist empire between 1814-1914. Well written, the book stands on a set of ‘redlines’ that the author creates with great ability in order to explain the interrelation between different moments of Russian history. At the same time, however, he openly criticises, in some cases, the attempts fostered by the literature to envisage linkages between ideological systems that, on the contrary, he considers to be divided by “unbridgeable gulfs”.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
