Russia's great reforms, 1855-1881 / edited by Ben Eklof, John Bushnell, and Larissa Zakharova. - xvii, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. - Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies. . - Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index.

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 judiciary, the military, education, the work of an international group of scholars that includes historians from Russia, maps out the major land marks in the conceptualization of the reforms and proposes a variety of perspectives from which toview them.--Back cover.

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Russia--History--Alexander II, 1855-1881

DK221 / .R87 1994