Civil rights in imperial Russia
By: edited by Olga Crisp and Linda Edmondson.
Contributors: Crisp, Olga.; Edmondson, Linda Harriet.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Civil rights -- Russia.; Russia -- Politics and government -- 1855-1881.; Russia -- Politics and government -- 1881-1894.; Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917.
Description: This collective study of civil rights in Russia before the Revolution of 1917 challenges the conventioanl view, held by both Western and Soviet historians, that concepts of civil rights and the relationship of the individual to the state fell on barren soil in Imperial Russia. This collection of essays by specialists in diverse areas of Russian history reveals the true complexity of the issues surrounding civil rights before 1917. They offer new perspectives on familiar problems--freedom of speech and association, personal inviolability, equality before the law--and demonstrate the immediate relevance of the concept of civil rights to the study of Russian history, and of the Soviet Union today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.