Defenders of the motherland
| Titel: | Defenders of the motherland : the Tsarist elite in revolutionary Russia / Matthew Rendle |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010 |
| Umfang: | XII, 274 S. : Kt. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780199236251 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Acknowledgements
- p. vii
- Notes on the Text
- p. ix
- Maps
- p. xi
- Introduction
- p. 1
- 1
- The First World War
- p. 12
- The Impact of 1905
- p. 12
- The Impact of the War
- p. 18
- On the Eve of Revolution
- p. 26
- 2
- The February Revolution
- p. 33
- The Emergence of Revolution
- p. 33
- Officers as 'Revolutionaries'
- p. 38
- Wider Reactions
- p. 46
- 3
- Nobles
- p. 53
- The Provisional Government
- p. 53
- Local Government
- p. 61
- War to the Palaces!
- p. 67
- The Union of Homeowners
- p. 74
- The Society of Nobles
- p. 80
- 4
- Landowners
- p. 84
- Agrarian Policies
- p. 85
- Reforming the Union of Landowners
- p. 90
- Forging a Landed 'Movement'
- p. 95
- The Union and the Government
- p. 102
- Growing Social Conflict
- p. 110
- 5
- Officers
- p. 115
- The Union of Republican Officers
- p. 117
- The Soviet of Officers' Deputies
- p. 120
- The Baltic Fleet
- p. 124
- The May Congresses
- p. 127
- The Union of Officers
- p. 137
- The Military League
- p. 144
- The Union of George Cavaliers
- p. 147
- Unity and Conflict
- p. 152
- 6
- Counter-Revolution
- p. 157
- The 'Conservative Movement'
- p. 158
- Strong Government Versus Dictatorship
- p. 165
- The August Meetings
- p. 173
- The Kornilov Revolt
- p. 180
- Post-Kornilov: The Officers
- p. 186
- Post-Kornilov: The Landowners
- p. 190
- On the Eve of October
- p. 195
- 7
- The October Revolution
- p. 199
- Bolshevism in Practice
- p. 201
- Nobles
- p. 208
- Landowners
- p. 215
- Officers
- p. 221
- The Emergence of Civil War
- p. 228
- Conclusion
- p. 230
- Bibliography
- p. 243
- Index
- p. 267
