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A public empire : property and the quest for the common good in imperial Russia /

"Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pravilova, E. A. (Ekaterina Anatolʹevna) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Whose nature? Environmentalism, industrialization, and the politics of property
  • The meanings of property
  • Forests, minerals, and the controversy over property in post-emancipation Russia
  • Nationalizing rivers, expropriating lands
  • The treasures of the fatherland
  • Inventing national patrimony
  • Private possessions and national art
  • "Estates on Parnassus": literary property and cultural reform
  • Writers and the audience: legal provisions and public discourse
  • The private letters of national literature.