Kussian Political Institutions 
MAXIME HOVALEVSKY 
By 
Formerly Professor of Public Law at the University of Moscow 
HE evolution of the Russian political régime 
has hitherto received but slight attention from 
competent observers. Because of this discrepaney 
in the literature an inter- 
esting and instructive 
chapter of modern history escapes the 
attention of the general reader. The A iT 
present volume aims to fill this gap; in ime ) 
doing this it avoids technical detail and 
in asimple and interesting manner re- and 
lates the progress of Russian political 
life. If one wonders, for example, why 
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a general acceptance of European in- interesiili 
stitutions has not appreciably curtailed 
the almost oriental despotism of the l) k 
czars, an answer may be found in the 00 
fact that often the letter only and not 
the spirit of these European institu: a 
tions was adopted. The emancipation . 
of the serfs, local self-government, the status of u 
and the press form interesting portions not elsewhere av 
gilable. 
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Few writers have contributed so much to our knowledge of Russian inst ‘factory 4 litte 
modern, as Professor Maxime Kovalevsky, and no one else could have psigesig é 
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so Ein 
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