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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793896803321

Autore

Robinson Paul <1966->

Titolo

Russian conservatism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York ; ; London : , : Northern Illinois University Press, , 2019

©2021

ISBN

1-5017-4736-3

1-5017-4735-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 286 pages)

Collana

NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies

Classificazione

28.08

Disciplina

320.520947

Soggetti

Political culture - Soviet Union

Conservatism - Russia (Federation)

Political culture - Russia (Federation)

Political culture - Russia

Russia

USSR

conservatism

history

political culture

Conservatism - Russia

Conservatism - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Defining Russian conservatism -- The reign of Alexander I -- Official nationality -- The Slavophiles -- The great reforms -- The era of counter-reform -- Between revolutions -- Emigration -- The Soviet Union under Stalin -- Late Soviet conservatism -- Post-Soviet Russia.

Sommario/riassunto

Paul Robinson's Russian Conservatism examines the history of Russian conservative thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. As he shows, conservatism has made an underappreciated contribution to Russian national identity, to the ideology of Russian statehood, and to Russia's social-economic development. Robinson charts the contributions made by philosophers, politicians, and others



during the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods. Looking at cultural, political, and social-economic conservatism in Russia, he discusses ideas and issues of more than historical interest. Indeed, what Russian Conservatism demonstrates is that such ideas are helpful in interpreting Russia's present as well as its past and will be influential in shaping Russia's future, for better or for worse, in the years to come.For the past two centuries Russian conservatives have sought to adapt to the pressures of modernization and westernization and, more recently, globalization, while preserving national identity and political and social stability. Through Robinson's research we can now understand how Russian conservatives have continually proposed forms of cultural, political, and economic development seen as building on existing traditions, identity, forms of government, and economic and social life, rather than being imposed on the basis of abs tract theory and foreign models.