id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2b88qc00f9q Nathan Gerth A Model Town: Tver', the Classical Imperial Order, and the Rise of Civic Society in the Russian Provinces, 1763-1861 2014 .txt text/plain 364 13 45 My work, however, shows that this development did not necessarily constitute a successful conclusion to the state-building project, as the civic culture in Tver' often depended on political mechanisms that appropriated or circumvented central government institutions. By the 1860s the tensions created by these extra-institutional networks pushed state authorities to create a new political system as part of the Great Reforms. cache/2b88qc00f9q.txt txt/2b88qc00f9q.txt