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RAYMOND PIONCARÉ AND THE FRENCH PRESIDENCY
$18.43
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“What happened when a strong statesman found himself confined within the limits of a weak office, the French presidency?” This study answers that question.
Raymond Poincaré tested the presidency within the limits of the French Constitution. He hoped to strengthen the office, but while he did exercise considerably more influence than most French presidents, he found that without a constitutional amendment the President could be important but never dominant, influential but never powerful. On the other hand, his conduct in office discredited the time-honored French witticism that “the president hunts rabbits and does not govern.” His record is not without significance in connection with Europe of the future.
This attempt to weigh the personality and part of the career of one of the French Republic’s outstanding statesmen was judged the best monograph submitted on European history in 1941 and won for Professor Wright the annual prize of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.
The study of Poincaré’s term in office offers one of the best opportunities to study the French presidency, for more details have come to light on his administration than on that of any other man to hold that office.
At the time of publication in 1942, Gordon Wright was Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oregon.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original:
Title: RAYMOND PIONCARÉ AND THE FRENCH PRESIDENCY
Author: Gordon Wright
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1942
ISBN 080473416X
Boris Chicherin and Early Russian Liberalism, 1828-1866
$24.61
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“The strengths of this work lie in the absolutely massive documentation that Hamburg brings forward, in the judiciousness and care with which he exploits his sources, and, above all, in the fact that for the first time he brings together the various episodes and controversies in which Chicherin was involved. He enables the reader to see Chicherin’s intellectual pattern as a whole and to understand the reasons why generations of educated Russians have taken his life and work as one of the central bearing points for modern Russian intellectual history.”
-S. Frederick Starr, Oberlin College
This is the first volume of a two-volume intellectual and political biography of Boris Chicherin (1828-1904), the most important liberal thinker in nineteenth-century Russia. The author analyzes Chicherin’s gradual emergence as a reformist during the reign of Nicholas I, his activities as a prominent spokesman for liberal reform, and his defense of conservative liberalism before his disillusionment in the mid-1860’s with both Russian government and society.
Chicherin’s early liberalism distinguished civil rights, such as freedom of conscience and of speech, from political rights, such as constitutional guarantees of suffrage and representative government. He contended that only a strong centralized state could simultaneously keep order and promulgate sweeping civil reforms, for when nations lacking democratic experience embark on extensive reforms, the absence of a powerful state apparatus may lead to uncontrolled revolutionary ferment.
The book is not a conventional biography of Chicherin, but a portrait of the cultural context in which he and other early Russian liberals operated. It deals with broad issues in Russian intellectual and political history: the development of liberalism out of the Westernism of the 1840’s; the differentiation of early Russian liberalism from Russian socialism; the connections between educated liberal society and the enlightened bureaucrats; the woman question, the Polish problem, and the abolition of serfdom; and finally liberalism’s prospects in reformed Russia.
The second volume will analyze Chicherin’s life and thought from 1867 to 1904, tracing his intellectual evolution from conservative liberal to “classical liberal.”
G.M. Hamburg is Associate Professor of Russian History at the University of Notre Dame. He has translated several Russian books and is the author of Politics of the Russian Nobility, 1881-1905.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of one of the following editions:
Boris Chicherin & early Russian liberalism, 1828-1866
By Gary M. Hamburg
Published by Stanford University Press, 1992
ISBN 0804720533, 9780804720533
443 pages
Contents
Chicherin Reform Politics 1
Chicherin , serfdom , zemstvo
Family and Childhood 17
Tambov , Chicherin , tax farmers
University Years 42
Slavophiles , Stroganov , Granovskii
The Historian 75
Hegel , Russian history , Kavelin
A Voice from Russia 107
Koshelev , boyars , Konstantin Kavelin
The Circle of A V Stankevich 147
Russkii vestnik , Varangians , Russian
The Grand Tour 176
Elena Pavlovna , Tolstoi , Orleanists
Crisis at Moscow University 216
Gorchakov , open university , Kostomarov
Conservative Liberalism 244
zemstvo , Poland , Stroganov
On Popular Representation 272
Montesquieu , representative government , Hippolyte Passy
Nemesis 311
Golovnin , Tolstoi , Leont'ev
The Legacy of Early Liberalism 331
nobility
Notes 345
Russkii vestnik , Ibid , B. N. Chicherin
Bibliography 415
B. N. Chicherin , Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii , gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv
Index 433
Vera Zasulich : A Biography
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This is the first complete biography in any language of the Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich, who gained worldwide prominence in 1878 by walking into the office of the brutal General Trepov, Governor of St. Petersburg, and shooting him. Acquitted by a sympathetic jury, she escaped to Western Europe, where she became a Marxist and spent the next quarter-century tirelessly preaching the revolutionary cause and trying to keep the peace among Russian socialists and populists. Although she returned to Russia after the 1905 Revolution, she was too ill and discouraged by her failure to unite the various revolutionary factions to remain politically active.
Zasulich embodies many important characteristics of the Russian revolutionaries of her time. Some had their positive side: the disenchantment with autocratic rule that caused the intelligentsia to turn against the state; the peculiarly Russian penchant for carrying ideas to their logical conclusion, as in the shooting of Trepov; the conviction that the affluent and the educated must take the lead in redistributing society’s resources. But there were also, inevitably, the ravages that revolution inflicted on the lives of those who adopted it as a profession: the disillusionment, the broken friendships, the damaged psyches. In 1919, two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, which she condemned, Vera Zasulich died poor and virtually friendless in Petrograd.
Jay Bergman is Assistant Professor of History at Albright College.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Title Vera Zasulich: a biography
Author Jay Bergman
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1983
ISBN 0804711569, 9780804711562
Length 261 pages
New cover image courtesy of Cherry Bomb Comics, New Zealand (cherrybombcomics.co.nz)
