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Article: P.A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2003
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P.A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia. By Abraham Ascher. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 468. $55.00.)
For nearly a century, almost all works about Petr Arkad'evich Stolypin, imperial Russia's last great reformer, have tended either to demonize or glorify him. In part, this was due to the highly controversial role he played in the final years of tsarism; in part, it was due to the dearth of those personal materials that might have thrown a more human light on this intensely political figure. Moreover, he was assassinated at the height of his career and never got to write his memoirs, unlike many of his less ...