Research Catalog

Title

Prince George E. L'vov : the Zemstvo, civil society, and liberalism in late imperial Russia / Thomas Earl Porter, with Lawrence W. Lerner.

Author

Porter, Thomas Earl

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

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Additional Authors

Lerner, Lawrence W.

Description

xviii, 257 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Lʹvov, Georgiĭ Evgenʹevich, kni︠a︡zʹ, 1861-1925
• Lʹvov, Georgiĭ Evgenʹevich, kni͡azʹ, 1861-1925
• 1894-1917
• Politicians > Russia > Biography
• Zemstvos > History
• Liberalism > Russia > History
• Civil society > Russia > History
• Civil society
• Liberalism
• Politicians
• Politics and government
• Zemstvos
• Russia > Politics and government > 1894-1917
• Russia > History > Nicholas II, 1894-1917
• Russia

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 liberalism in Russia's Great War -- The failure of Russian liberalism.

ISBN

• 9781498518673
• 1498518672

LCCN

^^2017033658

OCLC

• 994287531
• SCSB-12340188

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library