Revolyuciya, reforma i voyna. Nemcy Povolzh'ya v period zakata Rossiyskoy imperii

V predlagaemoy chitatelyu knige predstavleny osnovnye istoriko-demograficheskie dannye o naselenii Saratovskoy i Samarskoy guberniy na rubezhe XIX-XX vv., proveden analiz ekonomicheskogo polozheniya nemcev - poselyan-sobstvennikov - v preddverii Pervoy russkoy revolyucii. Rassmotreny social'no-ekonomicheskie i kul'turnye aspekty zhizni povolzhskih nemcev v period revolyucionnyh potryaseniy 1905-1907 gg., ih politicheskaya orientaciya i otnoshenie k "konstitucionnoy monarhii". Raskryvayutsya pravovye i ekonomicheskie problemy zhizni nemeckogo naseleniya v period provedeniya stolypinskoy agrarnoy reformy. Chitatel' znakomitsya s reakciey nemcev na likvidaciyu obschiny i sozdanie "fermerskih" hozyaystv.