Russia

1877

Donald Mackenzie Wallace's account of Russia, written after six years living in the country: the village commune, the church, the nobility, serf emancipation, and the machinery of empire. Published in 1877, on the eve of the Russo-Turkish war.

Preface
Chapter I Travelling in Russia
Chapter II In the Northern Forests
Chapter III Voluntary Exile
Chapter IV The Village Priest
Chapter V A Medical Consultation
Chapter VI A Peasant Family of the Old Type
Chapter VII The Peasantry of the North
Chapter VIII The Mir, or Village Community
Chapter IX
Chapter X Finnish and Tartar Villages
Chapter XI Lord Novgorod the Great
Chapter XII The Towns and the Mercantile Classes
Chapter XIII The Pastoral Tribes of the Steppe
Chapter XIV The Mongol Domination
Chapter XV The Cossacks
Chapter XVI Foreign Colonists on the Steppe
Chapter XVII Among the Heretics
Chapter XVIII The Dissenters
Chapter XIX Church and State
Chapter XX The Noblesse
Chapter XXI Landed Proprietors of the Old School
Chapter XXII Proprietors of the Modern School
Chapter XXIII Social Classes
Chapter XXIV The Imperial Administration and the Officials
Chapter XXV Moscow and the Slavophils
Chapter XXVI St. Petersburg and European Influence
Chapter XXVII The Crimean War and Its Consequences
Chapter XXVIII The Serfs
Chapter XXIX The Emancipation of the Serfs
Chapter XXX The Landed Proprietors Since the Emancipation
Chapter XXXI The Emancipated Peasantry
Chapter XXXII The Zemstvo and the Local Self-Government
Chapter XXXIII The New Law Courts
Chapter XXXIV Revolutionary Nihilism and the Reaction
Chapter XXXV Socialist Propaganda, Revolutionary Agitation, and Terrorism
Chapter XXXVI Industrial Progress and the Proletariat
Chapter XXXVII The Revolutionary Movement in Its Latest Phase
Chapter XXXVIII Territorial Expansion and Foreign Policy
Chapter XXXIX The Present Situation