The War and DemocracySeton-Watson, R. W. (Robert William)
History
The War and Democracy
Seton-Watson, R. W. (Robert William)
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918; Nationalism -- Europe; World War, 1914-1918
ROTHAY REYNOLDS. _My Russian Year_. 1913. 10s. 6d. net.
Two good books dealing with life in contemporary Russia. The first is the
best and most comprehensive treatment of the new Russia which has emerged
from the revolutionary period, and gives one not merely the political
but also the social and artistic aspect. The other book is lightly and
entertainingly written.
STEPHEN GRAHAM. _Undiscovered Russia_. 1911. 12s. 6d. net.
STEPHEN GRAHAM. _Changing Russia_. 1913. 7s. 6d. net.
STEPHEN GRAHAM. _With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem_. 1913. 7s. 6d.
net.
Mr. Stephen Graham may be said to have discovered the Russian peasant for
English people, and his books give an extraordinarily vivid and sympathetic
picture of Russian peasant-life by one who knows it from the inside. They
afford also the best account of religion in Russia as a living force, while
those who wish to know more of the Orthodox Church as an institution may be
referred to chaps. xxvi. and xxvii. of Mr. Baring's _Russian People_; chap.
viii. of the same writer's _Mainsprings of Russia_; and chap. vi. of Sir
C. Eliot's (Odysseus) _Turkey in Europe_ (7s. 6d. net). The second of Mr.
Graham's books deals with the threatening industrial changes in Russia. The
third is a fine piece of literature as well as being the only account in
any language of one of the most characteristic figures in modern Russian
life--the peasant-pilgrim.
SIR D.M. WALLACE. _Russia_. 2 vols. 1905. 24s. net.
_Russia and the Balkan States._ Reprinted from the _Encyclopedia
Britannica._ 2s. 6d. net.
Both these accounts, though written many years ago, have now been brought
up to date in view of present events.
R. NISBET BAIN. _Slavonic Europe, 1447-1796_. 1908. 5s. 6d. net.
F.H. SKRINE. _The Expansion of Russia, 1815-1900._ 1903. 4s. 6d. net.
W.R. MORFILL. _Russia_. 1890. 5s.
W.R. MORFILL. _Poland_. 1893. 5s.
Are all useful for the history of Russia, and of her relations with Poland,
and Finland. Readers may also be referred to the _Cambridge Modern History_
(vol. ix. chap. xvi.; vol. x. chaps. xiii., xiv.; vol. xi. chaps. ix.,
xxii.; vol. xii. chaps. xii., xiii.).
V O. KLUCHEFFSKY. _A History of Russia._ 3 vols. 1913. Dent. 7s. 6d. net
each.
The standard economic and social history of Russia up to the reign of Peter
the Great.
H.P. KENNARD. _The Russian Year-Book._ Eyre and Spottiswoode. 10s. 6d. net.
Excellent for facts and figures.
E. SÉMÉNOFF. _The Russian Government and the Massacres._ 1907. 2s. 6d. net.
An account of the _pogroms_ in Russia from the Jewish point of view.
J.R. FISHER. _Finland and the Tsars, 1800-1899._ 1899. 12s. 6d.
The best account in English of the history of Finland's relations with
Russia up to the beginning of the reactionary period.
K.P. POBIEDONOSTSEV. _Reflections of a Russian Statesman._ 1898. 6s. For
Slavophilism.
P. KHOPOTKIN. _Memoirs of a Revolutionist._ 1907. 6s.
MAURICE BARING. _Russian Literature._ (Home University Library.) 1s.
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