Ministry of darkness : how Sergei Uvarov created conservative modern Russia /: how Sergei Uvarov created conservative modern Russia. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lesley Chamberlain.
• Authors: Chamberlain, Lesley
• Contents: Preface: The Shock of Revolution1. A Childhood Close to Power2. The Charm of Life Abroad3. Marriage and a Russian Career 4. Emancipation or Isolation?5. To Believe in Something Better is an Effort, a Fantasy...6. The Republic of Letters7. A Good Sacred Task8. Sire, Resist the Friends of Darkness!9. Retreat into Scholarship10. A Doffed Cap to the Tsar11. Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality12. Knowing He is only Feigning Russomania13. The Minister of Darkness14. A Life for the Tsar15. Politics Devours Everything16. A Russia within Russia17. To Eliminate the Conflict18. Decline and Fall 19. From the House of the Dead20. Afterword: The Struggle for a Modern RussiaAppendix 1: A Possible Source for Joseph ConradBibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages)
• Subjects: 947.07092; Educators -- Russia; Statesmen -- Russia; Educators; Intellectual life; Social conditions; Statesmen; Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917; Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917; Russia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350116719; 1350116718
• Related ISBNs: 9781350116689
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.