The history of liberalism in Russia [electronic resource] / Victor Leontovitsch ; translated by Parmen Leontovitsch with a foreword by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The history of liberalism, 1762-1855 -- Catherine II -- Alexander I -- Speransky --- Karamzin -- The codification of the law -- Nicholas I -- Nicholas I (continued) -- The development of civil liberty, 1856-1914 -- The emancipation of the serfs -- The emancipation laws and their later interpretation -- Peasant law -- The peasant question in the reign of Alexander III -- The peasant question in the reign of Nicholas II before 1905 -- The agrarian program of the left-wing parties -- The peasant question after 1905 -- The history of political liberalism in the reign of Alexander II -- The period from 1881 to 1902 -- The liberation movement -- Liberalism in 1904 -- The Zemstvo congresses -- Further Zemstvo congresses and the aggravation of the revolutionary situation -- The Manifesto of October 17, 1905, and the Constitution of April 23, 1906 -- Witte and public opinion -- The Constitutional-Democratic Party and the Union of October 17 -- The First Duma -- The Second Duma -- The coup of June 3, 1907, and the Third and Fourth Dumas.

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