This is a comprehensive interpretive history of Russia from the defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I.
Polunov explains how the major Social groups - the gentry, merchants, petty townspeople, peasants, and ethnic minorities - reacte.
Drawing on the latest Russian and Western historical scholarship, Alexander Polunov examines the decay of the two central institutions of tsarist Russia: serfdom and autocracy.
It is the first such work by a post-Soviet Russian scholar to appear in English.
This is a comprehensive interpretive history of Russia from the defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I