Podcasts about Sergei Witte

Send us a textSergei Witte was the first Prime Minister of Russia that wasn't the Tsar. Try as he could, he was unable to convince Nicholas II to reform the country and create a constitutional monarchy.Support the show

1904 yılında tanınırlık kazanan bir rahip; Georgy Gapon, St. Petersburg'daki işçi meclisinde aktif görev alır. İşçiler arasında gittikçe itibar kazanmaya başlayan bu rahip, çara bir dilekçe yazarak ona işçilerin dertlerini anlatmak ister. Bu dilekçeyi işçilerle birlikte bir yürüyüş yaparak Nikolay'a ulaştırmayı planlar. Bir yandan da Rus Gizli Polisi Okhrana için çalışan çifte ajan Gapon, Putilov Fabrikası'nda yaşanan haksızlığın ardından yürüyüşe karar verir. Tarihe Kanlı Pazar olarak geçen bu hadise, Rusya tarihi için bir kırılma noktası olur. Kanlı Pazar'la başlayan 1905 yılı, Rusya'yı devrimin eşiğine getirir. İşçiler, aydınlar, bürokratlar, zemstvo temsilcileri, hatta Çarlık Rusya Ordusu askerleri dahi rejime başkaldırır. Otokrasi, yaşanan olaylar karşısında ilk kez geri adım atmak zorunda kalır. Ülkede yaşanan kaos, devrime yol açar. Ekim Manifestosu olarak bilinen manifestoyla çar, halkın sesini duyurabileceği bir meclis açmak durumunda kalır. Rejim destekçisi olması beklenen meclis, rejimin tam karşısında konumlanır. Devrimcilere karşı mecliste sert bir tutum takınan çarlık rejimi, muhalif vekillerin sesini kesemeyince hukuki bir darbeyle Duma Meclisini kapatmak ister. Bu, devrimci hareketleri daha da kızıştırır. Kendi içinde de Bolşevik-Menşevik gibi farklı fraksiyonlara bölünen devrimciler, rejime karşı hep birliktedir. Bütün bu gelişmeler yetmezmiş gibi 1904-1905 Rus-Japon Savaşı, korkunç bir yenilgiyle sonuçlanır. Sergei Witte'nin Japonlarla imzaladığı Portsmouth Antlaşması'yla Rusya, Uzakdoğu hayallerini bir kenara bırakır. Aynı günlerde yaklaşan devrim için çalışmalar yapan Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin adında genç bir devrimciyle tanışır. Rusya tarihine damga vuracak ikili, birlikte çalışmaya başlar. Devrimci hareket içerisinde etkin görev alan Stalin, Bolşevikler arasında gittikçe güçlenir. Felaket bir durumda olan Çarlık Rusya'ya Avrupa'daki gelişmeler de yardımcı olmaz. Avrupa'da 20. yüzyılın başında yükselen tansiyon, Birbiri ardına krizlere sahne olur. Kaiser Wilhelm'in politik hataları, İngiltere'ye, izlediği yalnızlık politikasını yeniden düşündürür. İmzalanan Entente Cordiale (Samimi Antlaşma) ile İngiltere ve Fransa, bir asırlık düşmanlıktan sonra tekrar yakınlaşmaya başlar. Benzer şekilde Rusya da Birleşik Krallık ile masaya oturur. Birbirinden bağımsız yapılan bu antlaşmalar, yaşanan krizler sonucu Üçlü İtilaf'a dönüşecektir. Çar Nikolay'ın bütün sorunlar yetmezmiş gibi yeni doğan oğlunun hemofili hastalığına sahip olduğu anlaşılır. Bu amansız rahatsızlık, Alexei Nikolayevich Romanov için hayati tehlike oluşturur. Acılar içinde kıvranan çocuğa çare olması için mistik bir şifacının adı geçer. Grigori Rasputin adındaki bu gizemli din adamı, Çarlık rejiminin son dönemine damga vurur. 00:00 - 02:18 Intro 02:18 - 09:10 Kanlı Pazar'a Giden Yol 09:10 - 11:40 Kanlı Pazar 11:40 - 17:27 Devrim Başlıyor 17:27 - 18:56 Japon Savaşının Sonu: Portsmouth 18:56 - 21:56 "Ekim Manifestosu" 21:56 - 22:31 Sosyal Demokratlar Bölünüyor "Bolşevik-Menşevik" 22:31 - 27:09 Rejimin Duma Felaketi 27:09 - 28:25 "Cugaşvili" 28:25 - 31:17 Yeni Avrupa: Entente Cordiale 31:17 - 33:45 Tansiyon Yükseliyor: I. Fas Krizi 33:45 - 35:14 Donanma Yarışı 35:14 - 36:27 II. Fas Krizi (Agadir Krizi) 36:27 - Çareviç Aleksey ve Gizemli Şifacı Rasputin Credits: Music: Black Order by Soundridemusic Link to Video: https://youtu.be/REQdrQlCV5g?si=3EMnuKmscEe4sy7R Diğer Müzikler: @epidemicsound Kaynakça; (Kullanım Derecesine Göre Sıralanmıştır.) Rusya İmparatorluğu'nun Çöküşü; Harp Yahut İhtilal (1881 1917) - Onur Önol - Onur İşçi Simon Sebag Montefiore - The Romanovs 1613 - 1918 Catrine Clay - Kral İmparator Çar XIX. Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarihi - Fahir Armaoğlu Andrew Wiest - Birinci Dünya Savaşı Tarihi Rusya; Ortaçağ'dan Sovyet Devrimi'ne - Kezban Acar Rusya Tarihi - George Vernadsky Rusya'nın Kısa Tarihi - Paul Bushkovitch Kanalımızı desteklemek ve ek içeriklere ulaşmak için; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPlTdUoi8jAjEdk1wf5cQug/join

Welcome back to ParaPower Mapping. We embark on a brand new series today—likely our lengthiest yet. A comparative paranoid analysis of the history of Nazi occultism, beginning w/ an investigation into Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, the Theosophical Society, their racist doctrine, & some truly sus & eye-opening connections. Subscribe to the Boston Brahmin Watch Premium Feed on Patreon: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping In this EP, we discuss: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Ukrainian & Baltic German Noblewoman; her aristocratic heritage, including the von Hahn, Rottenstern, & Dolgorukov families; we play 6°s of Separation w/ Blavatsky & Pynchon, in part because Pynchon mentions Blavatsky & Theosophy in Against the Day & also bc it's fun; we talk Vladimir Nabokov & his nobleman father V. D. Nabokov; the Kadets, his Constitutional Democratic Party in pre-revolutionary Russia; the fact he was a deputy in the First Duma w/ Sergei Witte, cousin of Blavatsky & first PM of Russia; the possibility V.D. Nabokov was part of the delegation sent to negotiate the cease fire to end the Russo-Japanese War in Portsmouth, NH; we talk the assassination attempts on the both of them; V.D. Nabokov's likely "western democracy" backers & his émigré newspaper "Rul" in Berlin; bacterial meningitis; the fact that V.D. Nabokov's killers were later connected to the NSDAP via Alfred Rosenberg & Dietrich Eckhart; we talk Prince Dolgorukov's esoteric library, Rosicrucianism, & membership in the Masonic Rite of Strict Observance; we talk early visions of Ascended Masters; we talk a few different influences on Blavatsky, including Swedenborg, Franz Anton Mesmer, Thomas Lake Harris, & Edward Bulwer-Lytton; we explore the instructive & mind-boggling story of Henry Steel Olcott; the fact he was on the level; his early work as an agriculture journalist & correspondent for the NY Tribune prior to the Civil War, where he worked w/ Assistant Sec. of War Charles A. Dana; Olcott's service before contracting dysentery; his ascent into the War Department Secret Service Bureau, where he was made Special Commissioner & tasked w/ investigating wartime fraud by military suppliers; his close relationship w/ Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; the fact that he volunteered himself via a telegram to Stanton directly, offering to help lead up the "investigation" into Lincoln's assassination two days after it went down in Ford's Theater; I'm not going to divulge everything here, you just have to listen to the EP, but he played a major role in some very sus c*v*r-up shit; the curious fact that he survived the war, when many people involved in the "investigation", like his higher-up Col. Lafayette Baker—Lincoln's spy chief—did not; his law career following the War; his spiritualist meet cute w/ Blavatsky in Chittenden, VT; the likelihood she had him made as a mark, tho Olcott didn't care; spiritualist seance routines; "apports"; Daniel Douglas Home, spiritualist to the stars & royalty; a breakdown of the Blavatsky & the Theosophical Society's racist doctrine, eugenicist beliefs, & "Root Races", setting the stage to explore its influence on various German ethnonationalist occult orders that led to the formation of the NSDAP & Himmler's SS; American influence on Nazi eugenicist beliefs; the quasi-downfall of Blavatsky; accusations that Blavatsky was in the "employ" of Russian Imperial Tsarist secret police; decent chance that Olcott served a similar purpose; their support of Indian Nationalism, which brought 'em into beef w/ the Raj, British, & Christian College; Emma Coulomb's blackmail of Theosophical Society re: her assistance in helping Blavatsky create "phenomena"; Society for Psychical Research's investigation into Blavatsky; etc. Songs: | Scott Walker - "Opening" (The Childhood of a Leader OST) | | Todd Rundgren - "Eastern Intrigue" | | Ethel Raim, Elizabeth Knight, and Joyce Gluck - "Johnny Is My Darling" | | Blondie - "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear" |

In Tender Octopi podcast Episode 4 , Boris and Pavel discuss the freakin 10 days that shook the world which still keeps on shaking; the reception of the Russian Revolution of 1917 in the United States and Great Britain; Russia in Shadows, a book by H.G. Wells and John Reed's Ten Days that Shook The World; Sergei Witte and his role in the economy of the Imperial Russia; Emma Goldman and Alexander Beckman, the indomitable terrorist duo from Russia having a ball (and a chain) in the USA. The Red Scare One and the Red Ark full of undesirables shipped out from the American shore... And, a cherry on the layered cake, Pavel reads his short short story which squarely belongs in the self-styled genre of the kitsch kvetch. Podcast art: Boris Redko. Facebook@borredko Happy listening! And don't forget to contribute to Ukraine through the link provided herewith (click on the podcast link in the posting below this one, por favor)

Season 15, Episode 3. Ngaji Filsafat - Dr. Fahruddin Faiz H. P. Blavatsky Helena Petrovna Blavatsky adalah seorang pendiri Teosofi dan Theosophical Society. Orangtuanya Kolonel Peter von Hahn dari keluarga Hahn kuno von adalah sebuah keluarga bangsawan Jerman dari Basedow dan Helena Fadeyeva. Adik Blavatsky yang bernama Vera Zhelikhovsky adalah seorang penulis okultisme. Sepupu pertama Blavatsky adalah Sergei Witte seorang Menteri Rusia, dan kemudian menjadi Perdana Menteri pada masa pemerintahan Tsar Nicholas II. Dalam memoarnya, Count Witte mengingat pertemuannya dengan Helena. Kakek dari ibu Blavatsky adalah Andrey Mikhailovich Fadeyev, Gubernur Saratov dan istrinya Putri Helene Dolgoruki, tokoh usia pencerahan Rusia. Blavatsky tumbuh di tengah budaya yang kaya dalam spiritualitas dan mitologi tradisional Rusia, yang memperkenalkan ke dunia supranatural. Meskipun tinggal di New York City, ia mendirikan Theosophical Society pada bulan September 1875 bersama dengan Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Hakim. Blavatsky menulis bahwa semua agama sama-sama benar dalam ajaran batin mereka. Tulisannya menghubungkan pengetahuan spiritual esoteris dengan ilmu pengetahuan baru yang dapat dianggap sebagai contoh pertama dari apa yang sekarang disebut cara berpikir yang baru. Madame Blavatsky adalah tokoh sentral dalam ajaran Teosofi. Mendalami spiritualitas sejak muda dan hidup berpindah-berpindah di berbagai negara. Secara etimologis, teosofi berasal dari kata theo (Tuhan) dan sophia (ilmu pengetahuan atau kebijaksanaan). Dengan demikian, secara literal teosofi berarti pengetahuan atau kebijaksanaan dalam memandang permasalahan ketuhanan. Sepintas, bidang kajian teosofi tidak jauh berbeda dengan teologi. Kendati sama-sama mengacu kepada pembahasan terhadap berbagai masalah ketuhanan, perbedaannya terletak dari bagaimana operasionalnya. Jika teosofi cenderung menukik pada inti permasalahan dengan menyelami misteri-misteri ketuhanan yang terdalam, maka teologi lebih menggunakan pendekatan spekulatif-intelektual dalam menginterpretasikan hubungan antara manusia, alam semesta, dan Tuhan. Seseorang yang ahli dalam bidang teologi disebut teolog, sementara ia yang memahami kaidah teosofi disebut teosofos. Melalui pemikiran filosofis-sufistis, seorang teosofos dapat dikatakan sebagai seseorang yang mampu mengawinkan latihan intelektual teoritis melalui filsafat dengan penyucian jiwa dengan tasawuf dalam mencapai pemahaman terkait masalah ketuhanan. Munculnya kajian teosofi dapat ditelusuri dari budaya dunia Timur yang identik dengan segala mistisisme dan okultismenya. Seperti dalam hikayat Mesir kuno, Hindu, atau tradisi Timur lain yang tetap hidup dengan kultus (pemujaan) dan terkait erat dengan kultus Rosicrucian. Adapun tokoh paling berpengaruh dari teosofi adalah Helena Petrovna von Hahn atau yang kelak dikenal dengan nama Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, seorang perempuan keturunan bangsawan Rusia. Kelak, bersama Kolonel Henry Steel Olcott, ia mendirikan Theosophical Society di New York pada 17 November 1875, namun baru diresmikan pada 3 April 1905.

If your nascent bourgeoisie isn't big enough or rich enough to industrialize your Empire, just call Sergei Witte. He'll know what to do.   

Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there?  The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there?   It turns out that the answer to both questions is yes.  In Dr. Hassan Malik's meticulously researched new book, Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2018), the Tsarist government's relationship to foreign investors, mostly French bondholders, becomes a lens to judge the efficacy of Sergei Witte, Russia's reformist finance minister and, briefly, prime minister, in the early 20th century.  The same approach is applied on the eve of World War I where the state of international investment in Russia provides a perspective on the existing debate as to whether Russia was on the road to recovery or revolution when World War I broke out. During the war and in 1917, Western bankers generally seem indifferent to the risks that are emerging from Russia. Indeed, an American bank, the forerunner to Citibank, was opening up branches in Russia in late 1917 as the Bolsheviks were taking power. Soviet Russia's repudiation of its Western debts now seems like an obvious and inevitable outcome, but Malik documents how it came about and the debates among the Bolsheviks as to how to handle Russia's government debt. Beyond students of Russian history, readers interested in how governments can fail, and how risk can appear in a financial system thought stable and safe will find this book of great interest. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there?  The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there?   It turns out that the answer to both questions is yes.  In Dr. Hassan Malik's meticulously researched new book, Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2018), the Tsarist government's relationship to foreign investors, mostly French bondholders, becomes a lens to judge the efficacy of Sergei Witte, Russia's reformist finance minister and, briefly, prime minister, in the early 20th century.  The same approach is applied on the eve of World War I where the state of international investment in Russia provides a perspective on the existing debate as to whether Russia was on the road to recovery or revolution when World War I broke out. During the war and in 1917, Western bankers generally seem indifferent to the risks that are emerging from Russia. Indeed, an American bank, the forerunner to Citibank, was opening up branches in Russia in late 1917 as the Bolsheviks were taking power. Soviet Russia's repudiation of its Western debts now seems like an obvious and inevitable outcome, but Malik documents how it came about and the debates among the Bolsheviks as to how to handle Russia's government debt. Beyond students of Russian history, readers interested in how governments can fail, and how risk can appear in a financial system thought stable and safe will find this book of great interest. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there?  The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there?   It turns out that the answer to both questions is yes.  In Dr. Hassan Malik's meticulously researched new book, Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2018), the Tsarist government's relationship to foreign investors, mostly French bondholders, becomes a lens to judge the efficacy of Sergei Witte, Russia's reformist finance minister and, briefly, prime minister, in the early 20th century.  The same approach is applied on the eve of World War I where the state of international investment in Russia provides a perspective on the existing debate as to whether Russia was on the road to recovery or revolution when World War I broke out. During the war and in 1917, Western bankers generally seem indifferent to the risks that are emerging from Russia. Indeed, an American bank, the forerunner to Citibank, was opening up branches in Russia in late 1917 as the Bolsheviks were taking power. Soviet Russia's repudiation of its Western debts now seems like an obvious and inevitable outcome, but Malik documents how it came about and the debates among the Bolsheviks as to how to handle Russia's government debt. Beyond students of Russian history, readers interested in how governments can fail, and how risk can appear in a financial system thought stable and safe will find this book of great interest. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there?  The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there?   It turns out that the answer to both questions is yes.  In Dr. Hassan Malik's meticulously researched new book, Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2018), the Tsarist government's relationship to foreign investors, mostly French bondholders, becomes a lens to judge the efficacy of Sergei Witte, Russia's reformist finance minister and, briefly, prime minister, in the early 20th century.  The same approach is applied on the eve of World War I where the state of international investment in Russia provides a perspective on the existing debate as to whether Russia was on the road to recovery or revolution when World War I broke out. During the war and in 1917, Western bankers generally seem indifferent to the risks that are emerging from Russia. Indeed, an American bank, the forerunner to Citibank, was opening up branches in Russia in late 1917 as the Bolsheviks were taking power. Soviet Russia's repudiation of its Western debts now seems like an obvious and inevitable outcome, but Malik documents how it came about and the debates among the Bolsheviks as to how to handle Russia's government debt. Beyond students of Russian history, readers interested in how governments can fail, and how risk can appear in a financial system thought stable and safe will find this book of great interest. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there?  The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there?   It turns out that the answer to both questions is yes.  In Dr. Hassan Malik's meticulously researched new book, Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2018), the Tsarist government's relationship to foreign investors, mostly French bondholders, becomes a lens to judge the efficacy of Sergei Witte, Russia's reformist finance minister and, briefly, prime minister, in the early 20th century.  The same approach is applied on the eve of World War I where the state of international investment in Russia provides a perspective on the existing debate as to whether Russia was on the road to recovery or revolution when World War I broke out. During the war and in 1917, Western bankers generally seem indifferent to the risks that are emerging from Russia. Indeed, an American bank, the forerunner to Citibank, was opening up branches in Russia in late 1917 as the Bolsheviks were taking power. Soviet Russia's repudiation of its Western debts now seems like an obvious and inevitable outcome, but Malik documents how it came about and the debates among the Bolsheviks as to how to handle Russia's government debt. Beyond students of Russian history, readers interested in how governments can fail, and how risk can appear in a financial system thought stable and safe will find this book of great interest. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there?  The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there?   It turns out that the answer to both questions is yes.  In Dr. Hassan Malik's meticulously researched new book, Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2018), the Tsarist government's relationship to foreign investors, mostly French bondholders, becomes a lens to judge the efficacy of Sergei Witte, Russia's reformist finance minister and, briefly, prime minister, in the early 20th century.  The same approach is applied on the eve of World War I where the state of international investment in Russia provides a perspective on the existing debate as to whether Russia was on the road to recovery or revolution when World War I broke out. During the war and in 1917, Western bankers generally seem indifferent to the risks that are emerging from Russia. Indeed, an American bank, the forerunner to Citibank, was opening up branches in Russia in late 1917 as the Bolsheviks were taking power. Soviet Russia's repudiation of its Western debts now seems like an obvious and inevitable outcome, but Malik documents how it came about and the debates among the Bolsheviks as to how to handle Russia's government debt. Beyond students of Russian history, readers interested in how governments can fail, and how risk can appear in a financial system thought stable and safe will find this book of great interest. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there?  The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there?   It turns out that the answer to both questions is yes.  In Dr. Hassan Malik's meticulously researched new book, Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2018), the Tsarist government's relationship to foreign investors, mostly French bondholders, becomes a lens to judge the efficacy of Sergei Witte, Russia's reformist finance minister and, briefly, prime minister, in the early 20th century.  The same approach is applied on the eve of World War I where the state of international investment in Russia provides a perspective on the existing debate as to whether Russia was on the road to recovery or revolution when World War I broke out. During the war and in 1917, Western bankers generally seem indifferent to the risks that are emerging from Russia. Indeed, an American bank, the forerunner to Citibank, was opening up branches in Russia in late 1917 as the Bolsheviks were taking power. Soviet Russia's repudiation of its Western debts now seems like an obvious and inevitable outcome, but Malik documents how it came about and the debates among the Bolsheviks as to how to handle Russia's government debt. Beyond students of Russian history, readers interested in how governments can fail, and how risk can appear in a financial system thought stable and safe will find this book of great interest. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com

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’s last quarter century. As Finance Minister he oversaw the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. As a diplomat, he was Russia’s chief negotiator of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty that ended his country’s disastrous war with Japan. As Prime Minister, Witte authored the October Manifesto which crowned a series of sweeping reforms of Russia’s political system with a parliament, the State Duma. But as Frank Wcislo emphasizes in his biography, Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915 (Oxford University Press, 2011), Witte was also a great storyteller, as exemplified in his memoirs The Notes of Count Witte. Wcislo shows in this fascinating book how Witte’s stories reveal the times of the man as a man of the times. Witte was an archetypical New Russian torn by his affinity for the conservatism of the Russian elite and his recognition that those very values were fetters on his nation’s modernization. At the same time Witte’s stories reveal a man prone to masculine hero worship, gossip, vindictiveness, and embellishment of his own role in Russia’s high politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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’s last quarter century. As Finance Minister he oversaw the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. As a diplomat, he was Russia’s chief negotiator of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty that ended his country’s disastrous war with Japan. As Prime Minister, Witte authored the October Manifesto which crowned a series of sweeping reforms of Russia’s political system with a parliament, the State Duma. But as Frank Wcislo emphasizes in his biography, Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915 (Oxford University Press, 2011), Witte was also a great storyteller, as exemplified in his memoirs The Notes of Count Witte. Wcislo shows in this fascinating book how Witte’s stories reveal the times of the man as a man of the times. Witte was an archetypical New Russian torn by his affinity for the conservatism of the Russian elite and his recognition that those very values were fetters on his nation’s modernization. At the same time Witte’s stories reveal a man prone to masculine hero worship, gossip, vindictiveness, and embellishment of his own role in Russia’s high politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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’s last quarter century. As Finance Minister he oversaw the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. As a diplomat, he was Russia’s chief negotiator of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty that ended his country’s disastrous war with Japan. As Prime Minister, Witte authored the October Manifesto which crowned a series of sweeping reforms of Russia’s political system with a parliament, the State Duma. But as Frank Wcislo emphasizes in his biography, Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915 (Oxford University Press, 2011), Witte was also a great storyteller, as exemplified in his memoirs The Notes of Count Witte. Wcislo shows in this fascinating book how Witte’s stories reveal the times of the man as a man of the times. Witte was an archetypical New Russian torn by his affinity for the conservatism of the Russian elite and his recognition that those very values were fetters on his nation’s modernization. At the same time Witte’s stories reveal a man prone to masculine hero worship, gossip, vindictiveness, and embellishment of his own role in Russia’s high politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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's last quarter century. As Finance Minister he oversaw the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. As a diplomat, he was Russia's chief negotiator of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty that ended his country's disastrous war with Japan. As Prime Minister, Witte authored the October Manifesto which crowned a series of sweeping reforms of Russia's political system with a parliament, the State Duma. But as Frank Wcislo emphasizes in his biography, Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915 (Oxford University Press, 2011), Witte was also a great storyteller, as exemplified in his memoirs The Notes of Count Witte. Wcislo shows in this fascinating book how Witte's stories reveal the times of the man as a man of the times. Witte was an archetypical New Russian torn by his affinity for the conservatism of the Russian elite and his recognition that those very values were fetters on his nation's modernization. At the same time Witte's stories reveal a man prone to masculine hero worship, gossip, vindictiveness, and embellishment of his own role in Russia's high politics.

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’s last quarter century. As Finance Minister he oversaw... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices