The eclipse of Russia (Registro nro. 118795)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 18010953 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DK |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dillon, Emile Joseph, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1855-1933 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The eclipse of Russia |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-03-01 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Al Haines |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The eclipse of Russia" by Emile Joseph Dillon is a historical and political analysis written in the early 20th century. The work examines the Tsardom’s predatory structure, the complexities of Russia’s national character, and the policy errors of Russian leaders and the Entente that paved the way to the 1917 revolution and imperial collapse. Drawing on firsthand experience and figures like Count Witte, it critiques the bureaucracy, liberal parties, and intelligentsia while tracing how ethnic diversity and flawed institutions undermined national cohesion.<br/><br/>The opening of this study portrays Russia as a “realm of illusions” and argues that Western and Russian statesmen fatally misread a Tsardom incompatible with modern Europe. Dillon uses episodes around Witte and the 1905–06 crisis to show elite volatility and liberal miscalculations—promises on land, the Vyborg appeal, and the dissolution of the Duma—that later enabled Bolshevik outbidding and what he calls the “democratisation of parasitism.” He then dissects the “Russian mind” as a blend of exalted idealism and sudden brutality, poor political sense, and variability shaped by ethnic mixing, Tartar subjugation, and nomadic restlessness. Tracing the State’s Asiatic model from Ivan’s opritchnina through Peter’s Prussian-style bureaucracy and a long German role, he argues that serf emancipation, a politicized intelligentsia and universities, and universal conscription loosened the bonds holding disparate peoples together, making a popular explosion likely even as Witte’s gradualist program of education, legal reform, and conciliation went unsupported. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1918 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/eclipseofrussia00dilluoft/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/eclipseofrussia00dilluoft/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78075">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78075</a> |
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