Nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals were faced with a dilemma. They had to choose between modernizing their country, thus imitating the West, or reaffirmin

Although many Russians thought that the Constitutional Democrats, or Kadets, would be the party that would lead them through the Russian Revolution into the ran

Presents a study of ideas about the Russian Revolution explored by Americans during the Wilson Administration.

Liberalism is a crucially important topic today; this book adds the important yet neglected Russian aspect to its history.

Besides absolutists of the right (the tsar and his adherents) and left (Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks), the Russian political landscape in 1917 featured moder