Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 33: February 15, 1898 The organization of Russian towns and villages is an interesting subject for study. It is very generally under stood that the Russian government is a monarchy of the most absolute kind a veritable despotism in fact. Neverthe less the masses of the people enjoy many privileges of local organization and control, with which the higher officials seldom if ever venture to interfere. The country has been properly called a land of paradoxes; conditions seemingly opposed ...
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Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 33: February 15, 1898 The organization of Russian towns and villages is an interesting subject for study. It is very generally under stood that the Russian government is a monarchy of the most absolute kind a veritable despotism in fact. Neverthe less the masses of the people enjoy many privileges of local organization and control, with which the higher officials seldom if ever venture to interfere. The country has been properly called a land of paradoxes; conditions seemingly opposed, and self-contradictory exist there, and in many instances the results are not merely tolerable but good. For example, in that land, where the will of the Czar is the first and the highest law, and where every official aspires to be a little czar within his own sphere, there is a measure of freedom allowed the peasantry, which gives them in their local affairs an almost democratic aspect. Mr. D. M. Wallace, writing in 1876 on this phase of Russian life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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