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Nonfiction · 1877

Russia

Donald Mackenzie Wallace

Reading time
about 20 h
Length
277,969 words · 955 pages
Structure
39 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Chapter I — Travelling in Russia
  3. Chapter II — In the Northern Forests
  4. Chapter III — Voluntary Exile
  5. Chapter IV — The Village Priest
  6. Chapter V — A Medical Consultation
  7. Chapter VI — A Peasant Family of the Old Type
  8. Chapter VII — The Peasantry of the North
  9. Chapter VIII — The Mir, or Village Community
  10. Chapter IX — How the Commune Has Been Preserved, and What It Is to Effect in the Future
  11. Chapter X — Finnish and Tartar Villages
  12. Chapter XI — Lord Novgorod the Great
  13. Chapter XII — The Towns and the Mercantile Classes
  14. Chapter XIII — The Pastoral Tribes of the Steppe
  15. Chapter XIV — The Mongol Domination
  16. Chapter XV — The Cossacks
  17. Chapter XVI — Foreign Colonists on the Steppe
  18. Chapter XVII — Among the Heretics
  19. Chapter XVIII — The Dissenters
  20. Chapter XIX — Church and State
  21. Chapter XX — The Noblesse
  22. Chapter XXI — Landed Proprietors of the Old School
  23. Chapter XXII — Proprietors of the Modern School
  24. Chapter XXIII — Social Classes
  25. Chapter XXIV — The Imperial Administration and the Officials
  26. Chapter XXV — Moscow and the Slavophils
  27. Chapter XXVI — St. Petersburg and European Influence
  28. Chapter XXVII — The Crimean War and Its Consequences
  29. Chapter XXVIII — The Serfs
  30. Chapter XXIX — The Emancipation of the Serfs
  31. Chapter XXX — The Landed Proprietors Since the Emancipation
  32. Chapter XXXI — The Emancipated Peasantry
  33. Chapter XXXII — The Zemstvo and the Local Self-Government
  34. Chapter XXXIII — The New Law Courts
  35. Chapter XXXIV — Revolutionary Nihilism and the Reaction
  36. Chapter XXXV — Socialist Propaganda, Revolutionary Agitation, and Terrorism
  37. Chapter XXXVI — Industrial Progress and the Proletariat
  38. Chapter XXXVII — The Revolutionary Movement in Its Latest Phase
  39. Chapter XXXVIII — Territorial Expansion and Foreign Policy
  40. Chapter XXXIX — The Present Situation

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