Gentry Politics On The Eve Of The Russian Revolution: The Nationalist Party 1907-1917
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the twilight years of Tsarist Russia, a fragile and fractious political class struggled to preserve its ancient privileges against the tide of revolution — and Robert Edelman's Gentry Politics on the Eve of the Russian Revolution: The Nationalist Party 1907–1917 chronicles that doomed effort with remarkable precision and analytical depth. The book traces the rise and fall of the Russian Nationalist Party, a conservative political faction rooted in the landed gentry, as it attempted to navigate the treacherous terrain of late imperial politics between the failed revolution of 1905 and the cataclysm of 1917. Edelman details how this class of provincial landowners, caught between a weakening autocracy and the rising forces of liberalism and radicalism, forged a nationalist ideology that was as much about class survival as it was about political conviction. Through meticulous archival research, he presents the Nationalist Party not as a monolithic reactionary bloc, but as a complex organisation riven by internal contradictions and competing ambitions. Edelman's work sits at the intersection of social history and political analysis, illuminating the structural tensions within late imperial Russian society that made the 1917 Revolution not merely possible, but perhaps inevitable. His prose is authoritative yet accessible, grounding broad historical forces in the specific experiences of identifiable political actors and institutions. Gentry Politics stands as an essential contribution to the scholarship on the final decades of Tsarist rule, challenging simplistic narratives of revolutionary causation and asking a deeply unsettling question: could a more cohesive conservative politics have altered the course of history?
Author: Robert Edelman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Rutgers University Press
Genre: Politics & law
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the twilight years of Tsarist Russia, a fragile and fractious political class struggled to preserve its ancient privileges against the tide of revolution — and Robert Edelman's Gentry Politics on the Eve of the Russian Revolution: The Nationalist Party 1907–1917 chronicles that doomed effort with remarkable precision and analytical depth. The book traces the rise and fall of the Russian Nationalist Party, a conservative political faction rooted in the landed gentry, as it attempted to navigate the treacherous terrain of late imperial politics between the failed revolution of 1905 and the cataclysm of 1917. Edelman details how this class of provincial landowners, caught between a weakening autocracy and the rising forces of liberalism and radicalism, forged a nationalist ideology that was as much about class survival as it was about political conviction. Through meticulous archival research, he presents the Nationalist Party not as a monolithic reactionary bloc, but as a complex organisation riven by internal contradictions and competing ambitions. Edelman's work sits at the intersection of social history and political analysis, illuminating the structural tensions within late imperial Russian society that made the 1917 Revolution not merely possible, but perhaps inevitable. His prose is authoritative yet accessible, grounding broad historical forces in the specific experiences of identifiable political actors and institutions. Gentry Politics stands as an essential contribution to the scholarship on the final decades of Tsarist rule, challenging simplistic narratives of revolutionary causation and asking a deeply unsettling question: could a more cohesive conservative politics have altered the course of history?