Toward a United States of Russia

Plans and Projects of Federal Reconstruction of Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Dimitri Von Mohrenschildt (1902-2002)

1981


Contents
Preface7
1. Plans for Decentralization of the Empire under Alexander I 13
2. The Decembrists 18
Nikita Muraviev's Constitution 19
The Society of United Slavs 24
3. Petrashevtsy and Federalism 31
4. The Society of Saints Cyril and Methodius 40
5. The "Federal School" of Historiography: 46
N. I. Kostomarov and A. P. Shchapov 46
N. I. Kostomarov (1817-1885) 47
A. P. Shchapov (1830-1876) 61
6. Siberian Regionalism 85
Historiography 85
The Reforms of M. Speransky 87
The Development of Siberian Regionalism 90
The Siberian Circles and the Affair of the Omsk Separatists 98
Siberian Regionalism and Populism of the 1870s 108
Siberian Regionalism in the Last Quarter of the Century 112
7. Mikhail Dragomanov: Russian-Ukrainian Federalist 131
8. Populism and Anarchism: The Federalist Trend 166
Definition of Populism 166
The Pioneers of Russian Populism: Herzen, Ogarev, and Chernyshevsky 167
The 1860s 172
M. A. Bakunin (1814-1876) 178
Bakumn's Influence: The 1870s 195
Prince Peter A. Kropotkin (1842-1921) 198
Neopopulism and Federalism in the 1880s and 1890s 204
9. The Russian Marxists and the Nationality Problem 1883-1900 219
10. The Liberal Opposition and Federalism 232
Conclusions 253
Appendix: Maps of the Provinces and Regions of the Russian Empire 262
Bibliography 266
Index 297