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In search of liberal Tsarism: the historiography of autocratic decline
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Read, Christopher, 1946-. (2002) In search of liberal Tsarism: the historiography of autocratic decline. Historical Journal, Vol.45 (No.1). pp. 195-210. ISSN 0018-246X
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X0100228X
Abstract
The idea that the autocracy might have successfully modernized itself has, in recent years, spread widely beyond academic circles. However, a look at traditional and recent historiography shows that very few historians support this line. Even those who argue that Russia itself was developing rapidly have seen little prospect of the autocracy surviving the process. Equally, those who argue that radical socialist revolution might have been avoided tend to suggest, often by implication rather than in an explicit fashion, that a democratic, capitalist, bourgeois, and constitutional revolution was the alternative path. Thus it was not so much a question of tsarism or revolution but rather what kind of revolution was Russia facing?
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Authoritarianism -- Russia -- History, Historiography -- Russia, Russia -- History -- Alexander III, 1881-1894, Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1905-1907, Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917, Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921, Russia -- Politics and government -- 1881-1894, Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Historical Journal |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISSN: | 0018-246X |
| Date: | March 2002 |
| Volume: | Vol.45 |
| Number: | No.1 |
| Number of Pages: | 16 |
| Page Range: | pp. 195-210 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0018246X0100228X |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/781 |
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