Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction   Why Maklakov?

      I. Origins of a Public Figure

CHAPTER 1   Scapegrace and Scholar

CHAPTER 2   Trial Lawyer

CHAPTER 3   Friends and Lovers

      II. A Radical Tide

CHAPTER 4   Into Politics—and Early Signs of Deviance from Party Dogma

CHAPTER 5   A Constitution for Russia?

CHAPTER 6   The First Duma

      Take-Off and Crash Landing

CHAPTER 7   The Second Duma

      Challenging Stolypin, Engaging Stolypin

III. Reform in the Third and Fourth Dumas

CHAPTER 8   The Third and Fourth Dumas and Maklakov’s Fight against Government Arbitrariness

CHAPTER 9   Religious Liberty

CHAPTER 10   National Minorities

CHAPTER 11   Judicial Reform, Citizen Remedies

CHAPTER 12   Peasant Rights

CHAPTER 13   Reforms and Reform

      An Appraisal

      IV. The Slide toward Revolution

CHAPTER 14   National Liberals

CHAPTER 15   War—and the Mad Chauffeur

CHAPTER 16   The Killing of Rasputin

CHAPTER 17   February 1917

CHAPTER 18   In the Maelstrom

      The Liberals in Office

      V. Postlude

CHAPTER 19   Exile

CHAPTER 20   Coda

      The Rule of Law as the Thin End of the Wedge

      Chronology

      Abbreviations

      Notes

      Selected Bibliography

      Index