New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
Frank Wcislo, “Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915″
When it comes to Russia’s great reformers of the nineteenth century, Count Sergei Witte looms large. As a minster to both Alexander III and Nicholas II, Witte presided over some of the most important economic and political developments in the Old Regime