03400nam 2200613 a 450 991081583400332120200520144314.01-84545-993-810.1515/9781845459932(CKB)2550000000036772(EBL)717902(OCoLC)733040241(SSID)ssj0000541001(PQKBManifestationID)12214850(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541001(PQKBWorkID)10492576(PQKB)11523234(MiAaPQ)EBC717902(Au-PeEL)EBL717902(CaPaEBR)ebr10477141(CaONFJC)MIL508972(DE-B1597)636350(DE-B1597)9781845459932(EXLCZ)99255000000003677220100615d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRussia before the radiant future essays in modern history, culture, and society /Michael ConfinoNew York Berghahn Books20111 online resource (310 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84545-761-7 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.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 major subjects in Imperial Russian history and in historical writing, such as ideas and their role in historical change; the intelligentsia, the nobility, and peasant society; and historiography. The twelve essays raise cardinal questions about current scholarship on Russian history before the upheavalsEnlightenmentRussiaHistoriographyRussiaIntellectual lifeRussiaRelationsWestern countriesWestern countriesRelationsRussiaRussiaSocial conditionsEnlightenment.947Confino Michael1926-2010.173727MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815834003321Russia before the radiant future4036653UNINA