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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
S.E. Vitte. Izbrannye Vospominaniia: 1849-1911 gg. V 2-kh tomakh
[ Selected Memoirs, 1849-1911]
Ed. by A. Farizova
Moscow: TERRA, 1997 352+400 pp Serie: Tainy Istorii v Romanakh, Povestiakh i Dokumentakh Hardcover. 13 x 20 cm ISBN: 5300010898 Language: Russian
S. Iu. Vitte (1849-1915) was a prominent political figure, an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, chairman of the Council of Ministers (1905-1906). During the first Russian Revolution of 1905, S. Vitte drew up a Manifesto, "On improving the social order," that proclaimed civil liberties and decreed the creation of the Russian Duma. He developed the main strategies of the Stolypin agrarian reform and was working towards cooperation of the government and entrepreneurs. In his memoirs Vitte gives characteristics of Tsars Alexander III (1845-1894), Nicholas II (1868-1918), Stolypin, Durnovo, Vorontsov-Dashkov, and other historical figures of his time. Commentaries, name index.
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