LEADER 03350nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910457009403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-84545-993-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036772 035 $a(EBL)717902 035 $a(OCoLC)733040241 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541001 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12214850 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541001 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10492576 035 $a(PQKB)11523234 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC717902 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL717902 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477141 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL508972 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036772 100 $a20100615d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRussia before the radiant future$b[electronic resource] $eessays in modern history, culture, and society /$fMichael Confino 210 $aNew York $cBerghahn Books$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (310 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84545-761-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aOne 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 upheavals 606 $aEnlightenment 607 $aRussia$xHistoriography 607 $aRussia$xIntellectual life 607 $aRussia$xRelations$zWestern countries 607 $aWestern countries$xRelations$zRussia 607 $aRussia$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnlightenment. 676 $a947 700 $aConfino$b Michael$f1926-2010.$0173727 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457009403321 996 $aRussia before the radiant future$92227853 997 $aUNINA