The Memoirs of Count Witte

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
Countess Witte's Foreword
I. V. Hessen's Introduction: Excerpt
A. L. Sidorov's Introduction: Excerpts
Volume I, 1849-1903
	I My Family
	II General Fadeev and His Times
	III Some Caucasian Memories
	IV My Education
	V The Odessa Railroad, 1870-1879
	VI St. Petersburg, 1879-1880: Service on the Southwestern Railroad, My First Marriage, the Baranov Commission, Railroad Kings
	VII Kievan Years, 1880-1889: Service with the Southwestern Railroad
	VIII Kievan Years, 1880-1889: The Holy Brotherhood
	IX Kiev in the 1880s: More or Less Interesting Personalities
	X Kiev in the 1880s: Contacts with Emperor Alexander III and His Family
	XI Director of the Department of Railroad Affairs, 1889-1891
	XII St. Petersburg, 1889-1891: People and Incidents
	XIII Minister of Ways and Communications, 1891-1892
	XIV Family Matters
	XV Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshcherskii
	XVI Fellow Ministers and Other High Officials, 1889-1894
	XVII Minister of Finance: Appointment and Personnel
	XVIII Emperor Alexander III
	XIX My Work as Minister of Finance under Emperor Alexander III
	XX The Imperial Court
	XXI Last Days of Emperor Alexander III
	XXII A New Reign Begins
	XXIII The New Emperor's First Personnel Changes, 1894-1895
	XXIV The Sino-Russian Treaty of 1896
	XXV The Khodynka Tragedy
	XXVI May-October 1896: Liquor Monopoly, Nizhnii Novgorod Exhibition, the Gold Standard, the Bosphorus
	XXVII Some New Faces, Some New and Unfortunate Policies, 1896-1898
	XXVIII The Visiting Dignitaries, 1897
	XXIX Origins of the War with Japan, 1897-1900
	XXX Foreign Affairs, 1898-1900: The Hague Peace Conference, the Fashoda Incident, a New Foreign Minister
	XXXI A New Minister of Interior and Some Minor Developments, 1898-1900
	XXXII The Imperial Court: The Succession Question, Changing Mores
	XXXIII On the Road to War and Revolution, 1901-1903
	XXXIV My Departure from the Office of Minister of Finance
	Appendix A Some of My Achievements as Minister of Finance
	Appendix B My Work on the Peasant and Nobility Questions, 1893-1905
	Appendix C Letter from Witte to Nicholas II Concerning the Proposed Conference on the Peasant Question
	Appendix D The Origins of the Russo-Japanese War: Excerpts
Volume II, 1903-1906
	I On the Eve of War
	II My Differences with Plehve
	III The First Months of War, January-July 1904
	IV The "Political Spring" and Bloody Sunday
	V War and Peace, February-September 1905
	VI Return to Russia: Paris, Berlin, Rominten
	VII General Strike
	VIII The October Manifesto
	IX My First Ten Days as Premier
	X Impediments to My Work: General Trepov and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich
	XI The Restoration of Order
	XII Cabinet Changes
	XIII The Loan That Saved Russia's Financial Strength
	XIV Fulfilling the Promise of the October 17 Manifesto
	XV The End of My Tenure
	Appendix Origins of the October Manifesto: The Witte, Vuich, and Obolenskii Memoranda
Volume III, 1906-1912
	Part I My Life, 1906-1911
		I Exile?
		II Attempts on My Life
		III Personalia, 1907-1911
	Part II My Times, 1906-1912
		IV Formation of the Goremykin Government
		V The First State Duma
		VI The Opening of the Stolypin Era
		VII The Second State Duma
		VIII Stolypin in the Ascendant, 1907-1910
		IX Foreign Affairs, 1907-1911
		X Court Calendar, 1907-1911
		XI Politics and the Armed Forces, 1907-1911
		XII The End of the Stolypin Era
Editor's Notes
Sources: Texts Used in the Translation
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index