Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881

The Great Reforms undertaken during the reign of Alexander Ii represented a unique attempt by the tsarist government to restructure virtually every aspect of Russian life, beginning with the emancipation of the serfs and continuing through reform of local government, the judiciary, the military, education, the financial system, censorship, and other domains. This volume, the work of an international group of scholars that includes historians from Russia, maps out the major landmarks in the conceptualization and implementation of the reforms and proposes a variety of perspectives from which to view them Contributors are Alexander K. AfanasOtilde;ev, John Bushnell, David Christian, Ben Eklof, Daniel Field, Peter Gatrell, Abbott Gleason, Samuel D. Kassow, Jacob W. Kipp, Adele Lindenmeyr, Valeriia A. Nardova, Joan Neuberger, Fedor A. Petrov, Alfred J. Rieber, Natalia F. UstOtilde;iantseva, and Larissa Zakharova.