Alexander Alexandrovich Kornilov was a Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n historian

Historian

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 and liberal

Liberalism

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 politician.

Biography

Prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917

Russian Revolution of 1917

The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. The Tsar was deposed and replaced by a provisional government in the first revolution of February 1917...

, Kornilov was a history professor at the Polytechnicum of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 and author of a definitive history of 19th century Russia. He specialized in the reign of Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II , also known as Alexander the Liberator was the Emperor of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881...

 and the life of Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism. He has also often been called the father of anarchist theory in general. Bakunin grew up near Moscow, where he moved to study philosophy and began to read the French Encyclopedists,...

. In 1917, he served as secretary of the Central Committee of the liberal Constitutional Democratic Party

Constitutional Democratic party

The Constitutional Democratic Party was a liberal political party in the Russian Empire. Party members were called Kadets, from the abbreviation K-D of the party name...

 and chairman of the party's Petrograd Committee.

After the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

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 (1918–1920) Kornilov taught at the renamed Polytechnical Institute in Petrograd and continued his work on Bakunin.

In English

• Modern Russian History: Being an authoritative and detailed history of Russia from the Age of Catherine the Great to the Present, in 2 volumes, 679pp, trans. by Alexander S. Kaun, New York, Knopf, 1917. Reprinted as:
  • Modern Russian History: from the Age of Catherine the Great to the End of the 19th Century, Knopf, 1943, 1951, 1952, 1970.
  • 19th Century Russia: From the Age of Napoleon to the Eve of Revolution, edited and abridged by Robert Bass, New York, Capricorn Books, 1966, 428pp.

In Russian

• Krest'anskaya reforma. Saint Petersburg, Tipo-lit. F. Vaijsberga i P. Gershunina, 1905, 271p.
• Krest'anskij stroj, 1905
• Ocherki po istorii obshchestvennago dvizheniya i krestyanskago dela v Rossii, Saint Petersburg, 1905, 473pp.
• Obshchestvennoe dvizheniie pri Aleksandre II, 1855-1881: istoricheskie ocherki, Moscow, [Izd. zhurnala "Russkaya mysl'"], 1909, 263pp.
• Molodye gody Mikhaila Bakunina: iz istorīi russkago romantizma, Moscow, Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikovykh, 1915, 718p.
• Russkaya politika v Pol'she so vremeni razdelov do nachala XX veka: istoricheskij ocherk, Petrogad, Ogni, 1915, 93p.
• Semejstvo Bakuninykh, [Moscow, Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikovykh, 1915], 2 volumes.
• Kurs istorii Rossii devytnadtsatogo weka, in 3 volumes, 1918, reprinted in 1969.
• Gody stranstvij Mikhaila Bakunina, Leningrad, Gos. izd-vo, 1925, 590p.