In Search of the True West : Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development /
This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups that e...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1999.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The true west: England, France, and Germany
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- Universalism and its discontents: the laws of history, economics, and human progress
- Intersections of western and Russian culture: Russian historical economics
- Capturing the "essence" of Marx: the emergence of orthodox Marxism
- In search of the true west: England, Denmark, and Germany
- The demise of economic pluralism: constructing a twentieth-century model for progress and development
- Cultures of modernization on the eve of the twenty-first century: notes toward a conclusion.