Haimson, Leopold. The Russian Landed Nobility and the System of the Third of June : Introduction / L. H. Haimson
Manning, Roberta Thompson. Zemstvo and Revolution : the Onset of the Gentry Reaction, 1905 - 1907 / R. T. Manning
Brainerd, Michael. The Octobrists and the Gentry, 1905 - 1907 : Leaders and Followers? / M. C. Brainerd
Edelman, Robert. The Election to the Third Duma : the Roots of the Nationalist Party / R. Edelman
Korros, Alexandra Shecket. The Landed Nobility, the State Council, and P. A. Stolypin (1907 - 1911) / A. S. Korros
Hosking, Geoffrey. What Was the United Nobility? / G. A. Hosking, R. T. Manning
MacNaughton, Ruth Delia. The Crisis of the Third of June System and political Trends in the Zemstvos, 1907 - 1914 / R. D. MacNaughton, R. T. Manning
Vinogradoff, Eugene. The Russian Peasantry and the Elections to the Fourth State Duma / E. D. Vinogradoff
Haimson, Leopold. Observations on the Politics of the Russian Countryside (1905 - 1914) : Conclusion / L. H. Haimson

This volume treats an important and hitherto neglected topic in modern Russian history: the political evolution of the Russian countryside in the early twentieth century. Eight scholars examine the political and social conservatism of rural Russia from the formation of the Duma following the revolution of 1905 until the outbreak of World War I. The traditional view of this period is that the nation was successfully modernizing on the eve of the war and that the process could have been completed peacefully if the war had not intervened. But the revisionist view proposed here shows the tenacious grip of the landowning nobility - essentially the adult male members of some thirty thousand families - on the political process. Even as P. A. Stolypin's regime sought to reshape both the institutional system and the agricultural organization of Russia's countryside, it found itself compelled to concede a greater share of political power to the one group in society whose social and economic decline these changes were designed to reflect, if not to accelerate. Ironically, the landed nobility found itself better able to resist reform in the last decade of the tsarist regime than at any time since the late eighteenth century. The contributors examine the way the noble landowners of provincial Russia actually used their power. They consider the role that the various parties and factions representing the landed nobility played in Russia's political institutions and study the influence that some organizations — most notably the United Nobility - sought to exercise over various circles at Court and in the government bureaucracy. Finally, most of the essays seek to relate the politics of the countryside to the movement of national politics as a whole. The original and provocative scholarship found in this volume will be especially important to Western historians, since most of the contributors worked in Soviet archives and are making available the fruits of their research for the first time. The contributors are Michael С Brainerd, Robert Edelman, Leopold H. Haimson, Geoffrey A. Hosking, Alexandra Shecket Korros, Ruth Delia MacNaughton, Roberta Thompson Manning, and Eugene D. Vinogradoff. Leopold H. Haimson, Professor of History at Columbia University, is author of "The Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism" and editor of "The Mensheviks : from the Revolution of 1917 to the Second World War"

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