Mary Schaeffer Conroy - Emerging democracy in late Imperial Russia: case studies on local self-government (the Zemstvos), State Duma elections, the Tsarist government, and the State Council before and during World War I

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Emerging democracy in late Imperial Russia: case studies on local self-government (the Zemstvos), State Duma elections, the Tsarist government, and the State Council before and during World War I/edited by Mary Schaeffer Conroy.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 08070814702 (hardcover: alk. paper)

1. RussiaPolitics and government18941917. 2. Democracy

Russia. I. Conroy, Mary Schaeffer, 1937.

DK260.E44 1998

947.08'3dc21

9748794

CIP

This book was designed and typeset in URW Bergamo by Stephen Adams

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MARY SCHAEFFER CONROY is Professor of History at the University of Colorado in Denver. She is author of Peter Arkad'evich Stolypin: Practical Politics in Late Tsarist Russia (Boulder: Westview Press, 1976), In Health and In Sickness: Pharmacy, Pharmacists and the Pharmaceutical Industry in Late Imperial, Early Soviet Russia (Boulder: East European Monographs; distributed by Columbia University Press, 1994), and chapters and articles on government, medical care, and women in late Imperial, early Soviet Russia.

DITTMAR DAHLMANN is Professor of East European History at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn, Germany, and head of the Institute for Research on Culture and History of the Germans in Russia. His major publications include Die Provinz whlt. Rulands Konstitutionell-Demokratische Partei und die Dumawahlen 19061912 (Cologne, Welmar, Vienna: Bhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie, 1996).