This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. Y…
The Zemstvo and Russian liberalism -- The "small, victorious war" and the first Russian Revolution -- Russia's "forgotten decade": the Zemstvo, politics, and the emergence of civil society -- Russia's liberal experiment -- Russian liberalism in crisis -- The Zemstvo and liberali…
"This book provides a political biography of Prince George E. L'vov, the first prime minister of Russia after the fall of the Romanovs. The author uses the career of Prince L'vov to examine the development of liberalism and the advent of a civil society in late Imperial Russia."…
"This book provides a political biography of Prince George E. L'vov, the first prime minister of Russia after the fall of the Romanovs. The author uses the career of Prince L'vov to examine the development of liberalism and the advent of a civil society in late Imperial Russia."…
