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Sergey Yulyevich, Count Witte
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Lionel Kochan
Bearsted Reader in Jewish History, University of Warwick, England. Author of Russia in Revolution, 1890–1918 and others.
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Born:
June 29 [June 17, old style], 1849, Tiflis, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died:
March 13 [Feb. 28, O.S.], 1915, Petrograd (aged 65)
Title / Office:
prime minister (1905-1906), Russia

Witte’s reputation was at first eclipsed through the collapse of tsarism, but he is now appreciated as a successor to Peter I the Great in the drive to modernize a backward empire and as a forerunner of the Communists in the policy of implementing an industrial revolution from above. The “Witte period” of 1892–1903 may well be compared to the period of the First Five-Year Plan. But Witte worked in an unsympathetic political context that was perhaps incompatible with industrialization and by which he was ultimately defeated.

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