An intellectual biography of N.A. Rozhkov : : life in a bell jar / / by John González.

• Superior document: Russian History and Culture, Volume 16
• VerfasserIn: González, John, 1959-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Russian history and culture ; Volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (395 pages) :; illustrations, map.

An Intellectual Biography of N.A. Rozhkov is the first English language study to follow Russia's most gifted and important historian to emerge from the school of V.O. Kliuchevskii through the transformative decades that bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rozhkov's early philosophical influences are examined to explain his radicalisation from middle-class intellectual academic to Leninist-Bolshevik to Menshevik social-democrat. His Marxist-socialist beliefs landed him in gaol several times and eventually he was exiled to Siberia for a decade where he was able to refine his political worldview and develop his theory of historical development. Critical of Lenin and the 1917 revolution, he spent the last decade of his life being persecuted by the Bolshevik regime.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / John González -- Prologue / John González -- 1 The Formative Years (1868–1898): Rozhkov the Academic / John González -- 2 The Influence of Marxism (1898–1905): Rozhkov the Revolutionary / John González -- 3 Revolution and Prison (1905–1907): Rozhkov the Bolshevik / John González -- 4 Reflections from Butyrskaia Prison: Rozhkov the Intellectual Incarcerated (1908–1910) / John González -- 5 Applying Theory to Practice: Rozhkov in Siberian Exile (1911) / John González -- 6 The Siberian Road to the Duma: Rozhkov More Menshevik than Bolshevik (1912–1917) / John González -- 7 In Search of a Political Compromise (1917–1921): Rozhkov the Social-Democrat / John González -- 8 There is No Compromise (1922–1927): Rozhkov under Bolshevik Surveillance / John González -- Epilogue Rozhkov Rediscovered: A Review of the Major Literature since His Death / John González -- Appendix Works by N.A. Rozhkov / John González -- N.A. Rozhkov: A Chronology / John González -- Bibliography / John González -- Index / John González.