Russia Before The 'Radiant Future' : : Essays in Modern History, Culture, and Society / / Michael Confino.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Confino, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• A Note on Transliteration and Dates
• Acknowledgments
• INTRODUCTION The Discipline and I
• PART ONE The Fate of Ideas in History
• CHAPTER 1 Alexander Herzen and Isaiah Berlin on Russia’s Elusive Counter-Enlightenment
• CHAPTER 2 Russian and Western European Roots of Soviet Totalitarianism
• CHAPTER 3 Traditions, Old and New: Aspects of Protest and Dissent in Modern Russia
• PART TWO Social Groups in Comparative Perspective
• CHAPTER 4 On Intellectuals and Intellectual Traditions in Eighteenthand Nineteenth-Century Russia
• CHAPTER 5 The Nobility in Russia and Western Europe: Contrasts and Similarities
• CHAPTER 6 Comparing Russian Serfdom and American Slavery
• CHAPTER 7 Agrarian Crisis, Urbanization, and the Russian Peasants at the End of the Old Regime, 1880s–1920s
• PART THREE Approaches to the History of Russia
• CHAPTER 8 Reinventing the Enlightenment: Western Images of Eastern Realities in the Eighteenth Century
• CHAPTER 9 Political Murder in Russian Culture: Comparisons and Counterfactuals
• CHAPTER 10 Current Events and the Representation of the Past: Issues in Russian Historical Writing
• Afterword
• Selected Bibliography
• Index