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Russia before the "radiant future" : essays in modern history, culture, and society /
One of the major historians of prerevolutionary Russia has collected in this volume some of his most important essays. Written over a number of years, these pioneering works have been revised and updated and are complemented by others being published for the first time. Thematically, they cover majo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The discipline and I
- Part 1. The fate of ideas in history. Alexander Herzen and Isaiah Berlin on Russia's elusive counter-Enlightenment
- Russian and Western European roots of Soviet totalitarianism
- Traditions, old and new : patterns of protest and dissent in modern Russia
- Part 2. Social groups in comparative perspective. On intellectuals and intellectual traditions in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Russia
- The nobility in Russia and Western Europe : contrasts and similarities
- Comparing Russian serfdom and American slavery
- Agrarian crisis, urbanization, and the Russian peasants at the end of the old regime, 1880s-1920s
- Part 3. Approaches to the history of Russia. Re-inventing the Enlightenment : Western images and Eastern realities in the eighteenth century
- Political murder in Russian culture : comparisons and counterfactuals
- Current events and the representation of the past : issues in Russian historical writing
- Afterword.