05959nam 2201333 450 991078928580332120200520144314.01-4008-5026-610.1515/9781400850266(CKB)3710000000092469(EBL)1577203(OCoLC)872642804(SSID)ssj0001134576(PQKBManifestationID)11729857(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134576(PQKBWorkID)11184980(PQKB)10117247(MiAaPQ)EBC1577203(StDuBDS)EDZ0001059559(OCoLC)873806133(MdBmJHUP)muse43268(DE-B1597)453977(OCoLC)979755452(DE-B1597)9781400850266(Au-PeEL)EBL1577203(CaPaEBR)ebr10846131(CaONFJC)MIL580726(dli)heb40127.0001.001(MiU)MIU401270001001(EXLCZ)99371000000009246920130729h20142014 uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtccrA public empire property and the quest for the common good in imperial Russia /Ekaterina PravilovaCourse BookPrinceton :Princeton University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (449 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-18071-7 0-691-15905-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Whose nature? Environmentalism, industrialization, and the politics of property -- The meanings of property -- Forests, minerals, and the controversy over property in post-emancipation Russia -- Nationalizing rivers, expropriating lands -- The treasures of the fatherland -- Inventing national patrimony -- Private possessions and national art -- "Estates on Parnassus": literary property and cultural reform -- Writers and the audience: legal provisions and public discourse -- The private letters of national literature."Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the issues of ownership. A Public Empire refutes this widely shared conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. Most importantly, A Public Empire shows the emergence of the new practices of owning "public things" in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good.The book analyzes how the belief that certain objects-rivers, forests, minerals, historical monuments, icons, and Russian literary classics-should accede to some kind of public status developed in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. Professional experts and liberal politicians advocated for a property reform that aimed at exempting public things from private ownership, while the tsars and the imperial government employed the rhetoric of protecting the sanctity of private property and resisted attempts at its limitation.Exploring the Russian ways of thinking about property, A Public Empire looks at problems of state reform and the formation of civil society, which, as the book argues, should be rethought as a process of constructing "the public" through the reform of property rights.Public domainRussiaHistoryRight of propertyRussiaHistoryGovernment ownershipRussiaHistoryRussiaHistory1613-1917Bolshevik.Catherine the Great.Leo Tolstoy.Russia.Russian Empire.Russian art.Russian icons.Russian monarchy.Russian property.Russian rulers.Russian state.Russian.Soviet Union.absolute private domain.appropriation.authorial rights.authors.autocracy.churches.civil society.copyright.cultural reform.emancipation.expropriation.forest preservation.imperialism.intellectual capital.mineral resources.national patrimony.patrimonial relations.peasants.personal rights.privacy.private interests.private life.private property.property reform.property rights.public domain.public property.public status.religious architecture.religious art.religious icons.res publica.rivers.serfdom.social development.socialism.state possessions.state reform.Public domainHistory.Right of propertyHistory.Government ownershipHistory.333.10947/09034Pravilova E. A(Ekaterina Anatolevna),1542726MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789285803321A public empire3795742UNINA