Russia in the European Context, 1789–1914: A Member of the Family

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: A Member of the Family—Russia’s Place in Europe, 1789–1914....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Ties that Bind: The Role of the Russian Clan in Inheritance and Property Law....Pages 13-32
Capital, Industriousness, and Private Banks in the Economic Imagination of a Nineteenth-Century Statesman....Pages 33-48
Toward a Comprehensive Law: Tsarist Factory Labor Legislation in European Context, 1830–1914....Pages 49-70
Rereading Old Texts: Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia....Pages 71-83
Religious and Nationalist Aspects of Entrepreneurialism in Russia....Pages 85-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
The Role of “Europe” in Russian Nationalism: Reinterpreting the Relationship between Russia and the West in Slavophile Thought....Pages 97-112
Statistics, Social Science, and Social Justice: The Zemstvo Statisticians of Pre-Revolutionary Russia....Pages 113-139
“The Temple of Idleness”: Associations and the Public Sphere in Provincial Russia....Pages 141-160
Russian Punishments in the European Mirror....Pages 161-188
St. Petersburg Workers and Implementation of the Social Insurance Law of 1912....Pages 189-201
Russia’s Outlooks on the Present and Future, 1910–1914: What the Press Tells Us....Pages 203-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-238