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100	1		_aDillon, Emile Joseph, _d1855-1933
245	1	4	_aThe eclipse of Russia
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-03-01
508			_aAl Haines
520			_a"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. 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			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1918
653			_aRussia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917
653			_aSoviet Union -- Foreign relations
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/eclipseofrussia00dilluoft/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78075
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