The Reformer: How One Liberal Fought to Preempt the Russian Revolution by Stephen F. Williams
English | October 24th, 2017 | ASIN: B06Y3HHYNG, ISBN: 1594039534 | 438 Pages | EPUB | 4.58 MB
Besides absolutists of the right (the tsar and his adherents) and left (Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks), the Russian political landscape in 1917 featured moderates seeking liberal reform and a rapid evolution towards a constitutional monarchy. Vasily Maklakov, a lawyer, legislator and public intellectual, was among the most prominent of these, and the most articulate and sophisticated advocate of the rule of law, the linchpin of liberalism.