LEADER 04069nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910460025903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5945-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801459450 035 $a(CKB)2670000000078930 035 $a(OCoLC)726824218 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457581 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487412 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11311211 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487412 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10442972 035 $a(PQKB)10990251 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137960 035 $a(OCoLC)966771342 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51793 035 $a(DE-B1597)478640 035 $a(OCoLC)979954121 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801459450 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137960 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457581 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000078930 100 $a20090605d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSlavophile empire$b[electronic resource] $eImperial Russia's illiberal path /$fLaura Engelstein 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4740-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: The Discordant Choir -- $t1. Combined Underdevelopment -- $t2. Revolution and the Theater of Public Life -- $t3. The Dream of Civil Society -- $t4. Holy Russia in Modern Times -- $t5. Orthodox Self-Reflection in a Modernizing Age -- $t6. Between Art and Icon -- $t7. The Old Slavophile Steed -- $tIndex 330 $aTwentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile Empire, the leading historian Laura Engelstein pays particular attention to the Slavophiles and their heirs, whose aversion to the secular individualism of the West and embrace of an idealized version of the native past established a pattern of thinking that had an enduring impact on Russian political life.Imperial Russia did not lack for partisans of Western-style liberalism, but they were outnumbered, to the right and to the left, by those who favored illiberal options. In the book's rigorously argued chapters, Engelstein asks how Russia's identity as a cultural nation at the core of an imperial state came to be defined in terms of this antiliberal consensus. She examines debates on religion and secularism, on the role of culture and the law under a traditional regime presiding over a modernizing society, on the status of the empire's ethnic peripheries, and on the spirit needed to mobilize a multinational empire in times of war. These debates, she argues, did not predetermine the kind of system that emerged after 1917, but they foreshadowed elements of a political culture that are still in evidence today. 606 $aPolitical culture$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlavophilism$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiberalism$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRussians$xEthnic identity$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aNationalism$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aReligion and state$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aRussia$xPolitics and government$y1801-1917 607 $aRussia$xIntellectual life$y1801-1917 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aSlavophilism$xHistory 615 0$aLiberalism$xHistory 615 0$aRussians$xEthnic identity$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 615 0$aReligion and state$xHistory 676 $a947.08 700 $aEngelstein$b Laura$0759650 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460025903321 996 $aSlavophile empire$92492996 997 $aUNINA