Voluntary associations in Tsarist Russia : science, patriotism, and civil society /
This text investigates the role of learned, mostly scientific societies in building civil society in imperial Russia. It challenges the idea that Russia did not have the building blocks of a democratic society.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Russian associations
- European societies and the state : Russia in comparative perspective
- The application of science : the Free Economic Society and the Moscow Agricultural Society
- The quest for national identity : the Russian Geographical Society
- Patriotism and useful knowledge : the Society of Friends of Natural History
- Government and the public trust : the Russian Technical Society and education for industry
- Advocacy in the public sphere : scientific congresses
- Conclusion : an unstable partnership.