The Memoirs of Count Witte

by Sergei Iu Witte, Sidney Harcave

Overview

A portrait of the twilight years of Isarism by Count Sergei Witte (1849-1915), the man who built modern Russia. Witte presents incisive and often piquant portraits of the mighty and those around them—powerful Alexander III, the weak-willed Nicholas II, and the neurasthenic Empress Alexandra, along with his own notorious cousin, Madam blavatsky, the "priestess of the occult".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873325714
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/1990
Pages:	920
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1350L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sergei Iu Witte, Sidney Harcave

Table of Contents

Volume I: 1849-1903; 1_1: My Family; 1_2: General Fadeev and His Times; 1_3: Some Caucasian Memories; 1_4: My Education; 1_5: The Odessa Railroad, 1870–1879; 1_6: St. Petersburg, 1879–1880; 1_7: Kievan Years 1880–1889; 1_8: Kievan Years, 1880–1889; 1_9: Kiev in the 1880s; 1_10: Kiev in the 1880s; 1_11: Director of the Department of Railroad Affairs 1889–1891; 1_12: St. Petersburg, 1889–1891; 1_13: Minister of Ways and Communications, 1891–1892; 1_14: Family Matters; 1_15: Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshcherskii; 1_16: Fellow Ministers and Other High Officials, 1889–1894; 1_17: Minister of Finance; 1_18: Emperor Alexander III; 1_19: My Work as Minister of Finance under Emperor Alexander III; 1_20: The Imperial Court; 1_21: Last Days of Emperor Alexander III; 1_22: A New Reign Begins; 1_23: The New Emperor's First Personnel Changes, 1894–1895; 1_24: The Sino-Russtan Treaty of 1896; 1_25: The Khodynka Tragedy; 1_26: May–October 1896; 1_27: Some New Faces, Some New and Unfortunate Policies 1896–1898; 1_28: The Visiting Dignitaries, 1897; 1_29: Origins of the War with Japan, 1897–1900; 1_30: Foreign Affairs, 1898–1900; 1_31: A New Minister of Interior and Some Minor Developments, 1898–1900; 1_32: The Imperial Court; 1_33: On the Road to War and Revolution, 1901–1903; 1_34: My Departure from the Office of Minister of Finance; Volume II: 1903–1906; 2_1: On the Eve of War; 2_22: My Differences with Plehve; 2_3: The First Months of War, January–July 1904; 2_4: The “Political Spring” and Bloody Sunday; 2_5: War and Peace, February–September 1905; 2_6: General Strike; 2_7: General Strike; 2_8: The October Manifesto; 2_9: My First Ten Days as Premier; 2_10: Impediments to My Work; 2_11: The Restoration of Order; 2_12: Cabinet Changes; 2_13: The Loan That Saved Russia's Financial Strength; 2_14: Fulfilling the Promise of the October 17 Manifesto; 2_15: The End of My Tenure; Volume III; 3_1: Exile?; 3_2: Attempts on My Life; 3_3: Personalia, 1907–1911; 3_4: Formation of the Goremykin Government; 3_5: The First State Duma; 3_6: The Opening of the Stolypin Era; 3_7: The Second State Duma; 3_8: Stolypin in the Ascendant, 1907–1910; 3_9: Foreign Affairs, 1907–1911; 3_10: Court Calendar, 1907–1911; 3_11: Politics and the Armed Forces, 1907–1911; 3_12: The End of the Stolypin Era