LEADER 04222oam 22006375 450 001 9910785161603321 005 20231024211614.0 010 $a1-282-75341-X 010 $a9786612753411 010 $a1-4008-2256-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822560 035 $a(CKB)2670000000043938 035 $a(EBL)581619 035 $a(OCoLC)700688643 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000438065 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12141867 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438065 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10448763 035 $a(PQKB)10246171 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000177800 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11156298 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177800 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10217595 035 $a(PQKB)11508762 035 $a(DE-B1597)446241 035 $a(OCoLC)979905039 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822560 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581619 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000043938 100 $a20190708d1998 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn search of the true West $eculture, economics, and problems of Russian development /$fEsther Kingston-Mann 210 1$aPrinceton, N.J. :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[1999] 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) 311 0 $a0-691-00433-1 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tINTRODUCTION --$tCHAPTER ONE. The True West --$tCHAPTER TWO. In the Light and Shadow of the West --$tCHAPTER THREE. The Lessons of Western Economics --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Universalism and Its Discontents --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Intersections of Western and Russian Culture --$tCHAPTER SIX. Capturing the "Essence" of Marx --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. In Search of the True West --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. The Demise of Economic Pluralism --$tCHAPTER NINE. Cultures of Modernization on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century --$tNOTES --$tSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aThis ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups that embodied universal economic truths applicable to their own country. Esther Kingston-Mann describes Russian Westernization--which emphasized German as well as Anglo-U.S. economics--while she raises important questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined. This is the first historical account of the significant role played by Russian social scientists in nineteenth-century Western economic and social thought. In an era of rapid Western colonial expansion, the Russian quest for the "right" Western economic model became more urgent: Was Russia condemned to the fate of India if it did not become an England? In the 1900's, Russian liberal economists emphasized cultural difference and historical context, while Marxists and prerevolutionary government reformers declared that inexorable economic laws doomed peasants and their "medieval" communities. On the eve of 1917, both the tsarist regime and its leading critics agreed that Russia must choose between Western-style progress or "feudal" stagnation. And when peasants and communes survived until Stalin's time, he mercilessly destroyed them in the name of progress. Today Russia's painful modernizing traditions shape the policies of contemporary reformers, who seem as certain as their predecessors that economic progress requires wholesale obliteration of the past. 606 $aRural development$zRussia 606 $aEconomics$zRussia$xHistory 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xCivilization$xForeign influences 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xRural conditions 615 0$aRural development 615 0$aEconomics$xHistory. 676 $a947.084 700 $aKingston-Mann$b Esther$0153562 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785161603321 996 $aIn search of the true west$91269436 997 $aUNINA