The Limits of Reform: The Ministry of Internal Affairs in Imperial Russia, 1802-1881

by Daniel T Orlovsky

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ISBN-13:	9780674183124
Publisher:	Harvard
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Series:	Russian Research Center Studies Series , #81
Edition description:	Reprint 2014 ed.
Pages:	307
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Daniel Orlovsky was born in Chicago and educated at Harvard (AB, AM, PH.D.). He studied Russian at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA while in the US Marine Corps. At Southern Methodist Universitysince 1976, he served as Department Chair, (1986 – 97) and Director of the SMU in Oxford summer school at UniversityCollege, Oxford (1994 – present). He has been Visiting Professor of History at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Texas at Austin and continues to make frequent research trips to Russia and Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include the Russian Provisional Government, bureaucracy, the role of white-collar workers/lower middle strata in Russian and Soviet history, and the intersection of institutions, society and politics across the divide of the Russian Revolution. His most recent book is A Companion to the Russian Revolution.