Late Imperial Autocratic Governance: Worth Reconsidering?

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Description

A roundtable that returns to the question of “the state” and the viability of late imperial autocratic governance in its modern period, from the reigns of Nicholas I to Nicholas II, 1825- 1917. This roundtable, while recognizing the institutional, societal, and cultural contradictions that eventually produced multiple “crises of autocracy,” will examine through new research the patterns of governance that allowed the Russian Empire to cope with the multiple challenges of the modern age as long as it did.

Sub Unit

• History: Russian and Eurasian, 1800-1924

Chair

• Francis William Wcislo, Vanderbilt U

Roundtable Members

• Ronald P. Bobroff, Oglethorpe U

• John W. Steinberg, Austin Peay State U

• Susan Purves McCaffray, UNC at Wilmington