Plehve: Repression And Reform In Imperial Russia 1902–1904
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Condition: Acceptable. Jacket: No dust jacket — title page/frontispiece visible. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Ex-Lib with usual markings. Binding: Appears intact and firm.
A meticulously researched work of European and Russian political history, this biography chronicles the turbulent career of Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve, one of Tsarist Russia's most powerful and controversial ministers of the interior. Set against the volatile backdrop of late Imperial Russia, Judge details the complex tensions between autocratic repression and reluctant reform that defined Plehve's administration from 1902 to 1904 — a period marked by revolutionary unrest, state-sanctioned violence, and desperate attempts to hold the crumbling Romanov order together. With scholarly authority, the work uncovers how Plehve wielded the apparatus of the Russian state to suppress dissent while simultaneously navigating the contradictions of a modernising empire on the brink of collapse. Authoritative in tone and rigorous in its use of primary sources, it remains an essential reference for students of Russian imperial politics and the revolutionary era.
Author: Edward H. Judge
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Syracuse University Press
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Acceptable. Jacket: No dust jacket — title page/frontispiece visible. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Ex-Lib with usual markings. Binding: Appears intact and firm.
A meticulously researched work of European and Russian political history, this biography chronicles the turbulent career of Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve, one of Tsarist Russia's most powerful and controversial ministers of the interior. Set against the volatile backdrop of late Imperial Russia, Judge details the complex tensions between autocratic repression and reluctant reform that defined Plehve's administration from 1902 to 1904 — a period marked by revolutionary unrest, state-sanctioned violence, and desperate attempts to hold the crumbling Romanov order together. With scholarly authority, the work uncovers how Plehve wielded the apparatus of the Russian state to suppress dissent while simultaneously navigating the contradictions of a modernising empire on the brink of collapse. Authoritative in tone and rigorous in its use of primary sources, it remains an essential reference for students of Russian imperial politics and the revolutionary era.