1st Edition

Urban Finance Under Siege

By Thomas R. Swartz, Frank J. Bonello Copyright 1993
    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    An account of the later years of Tsarism. Witte presents portraits of the statesmen around him, explains the problem of bringing the economy to a level commensurate with Russia's putative position as the greatest land power in the world and the effort to create a constitutional monarchy.

    A portrait of the twilight years of Isarism by Count Sergei Witte (1849-1915), the man who built modern Russia. Witte presents incisive and often piquant portraits of the mighty and those around them--powerful Alexander III, the weak-willed Nicholas II, and the neurasthenic Empress Alexandra, along with his own notorious cousin, Madam blavatsky, the "priestess of the occult".

    Biography

    Swartz, Thomas R.; Bonello, Frank J.