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Chapter 10 - Politics

from Part II - Russian Social and Political Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2023

By
G. M. Hamburg
Edited by
Anna A. Berman
Anna A. Berman
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University of Cambridge
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This chapter analyzes the history of imperial politics from 1800 to 1914, with special emphasis on three key elements: the autocracy, the army, and peasant life before and after serfdom’s abolition in 1861. It argues that Tolstoy’s worldview took shape in the context of bureaucratic and military systems in which serf-owners occupied privileged positions, which complicated the abolition of serfdom, and which made impossible the building of an egalitarian social order in Russia.

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Russian bureaucracyRussian armyserfdomterrorism in RussiaMikhail Tarielovich Loris-MelikovAlexander IINicholas II
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Tolstoy in Context , pp. 75 - 84
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Politics
  • Edited by Anna A. Berman, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Tolstoy in Context
  • Online publication: 05 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108782876.014
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  • Politics
  • Edited by Anna A. Berman, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Tolstoy in Context
  • Online publication: 05 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108782876.014
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  • Politics
  • Edited by Anna A. Berman, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Tolstoy in Context
  • Online publication: 05 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108782876.014
Available formats
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