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erms
Language:
Russian
Size:
4 reels; 1,708 pages
Format:
Silver halide 35 mm microfilm
Price:
$560 US
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M
uch has been written about the assassination of Pyotr Stolypin, who headed
the Russian government at the time of his death on September 1911. Now
original source documents from the State Archive of the Kiev Oblast are
available in this one of a kind collection.
A
s head of the Russian government amid massive protests of workers and
peasants against the autocracy, Stolypin was firm in suppressing the protests,
but he also started programs to reform, first and foremost, Russia’s extensive
farming community, the government infrastructure, and economy. The reform
he launched in the countryside was aimed at increasing the population of
prosperous farmers, the mainstay of the existing system. Addressing members
of the State Duma, he once said: “You are after great upheavals, we are after a
great Russia.” This became his battle cry.
M
ost authors have based their narratives on reminiscences and
historical press accounts while only a few researchers used
archive sources. This unique collection of the archive-based
information presented by East View includes documents little
known to both the broad public and the scholarly community.
T
he collection contains such materials from the State Archive of
the Kiev Oblast as the correspondence
of the investigator of the
Kiev circuit court concerning the killer Dmitri Bogrov and other
revolutionaries implicated in Stolypin’s assassination as well as
the report to the prosecutor of the Kiev circuit court about the
murder, the record of Bogrov’s questioning, the report on the site
and time of Bogrov’s execution.
A
lso found in the collection are protocols from an apartment
search of a secret police officer who may have helped Bogrov, medical reports on Stolypin’s condition, details on the
funeral arrangements, examination annotations and autopsy of his body, and much more.
T
he assassination of Stolypin was a very important episode in Russian political developments preceding the turmoil of
World War I and the revolution, which changed the course of Russian history. This outstanding collection is a must-
have for those who research this critical historical period.
THE ASSASSINATION OF
PYOTR STOLYPIN