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Russia before the radiant future [electronic resource] : essays in modern history, culture, and society / Michael Confino.

By: Confino, Michael, 1926-2010.
Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011Description: xiii, 296 p.Subject(s): Enlightenment | Russia -- Historiography | Russia -- Intellectual life | Russia -- Relations -- Western countries | Western countries -- Relations -- Russia | Russia -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 947 Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The discipline and I -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The discipline and I -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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