LEADER 03690nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910821902103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-299-05251-7 010 $a1-60344-708-3 010 $a1-58544-988-1 035 $a(CKB)111087028235540 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000141243 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11157828 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141243 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10056051 035 $a(PQKB)11384072 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037725 035 $a(OCoLC)896922987 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77147 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037725 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10046112 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436501 035 $a(OCoLC)53976756 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087028235540 100 $a20020807d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe drama of Russian political history $esystem against individuality /$fAlexander V. Obolonsky ; foreword by Vincent Ostrom 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCollege Station $cTexas A&M University Press$dc2003 215 $axxiv, 271 p 225 1 $aEastern European studies ;$vno. 19 300 $aOn methodology and general concepts. The time of troubles: 1606 1612, and the rest of the seventeenth century. The devastating course of Peter's "modernization": the eighteenth century age of lost opportunities. Romantic Decembrists and pessimistic philosophers: the dualism of the first generation Russian intelligentsia. A decisive junction: the epoch of Alexander II. After the catastrophe: the penultimate Romanov reign. The evening glow. The inverted pyramid. Stalinism: high noon of system-centeredness. After Stalin: the system yields to fatigue. At the new crossroads 300 $aOriginaltitel: Drama rossii?skoi? politicheskoi? istorii 311 $a1-58544-224-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-268) and index. 327 $aOn methodology and general concepts -- The time of troubles: 1606 1612, and the rest of the seventeenth century -- The devastating course of Peter's "modernization": the eighteenth century age of lost opportunities -- Romantic Decembrists and pessimistic philosophers: the dualism of the first generation Russian intelligentsia -- A decisive junction: the epoch of Alexander II -- After the catastrophe: the penultimate Romanov reign -- The evening glow -- The inverted pyramid -- Stalinism: high noon of system-centeredness -- After Stalin: the system yields to fatigue -- At the new crossroads. 330 $aObolonsky notes that Russian history and life are full of paradoxes, most of them sad. Why, he asks, have the Russians, who possess enormous natural, human, and intellectual resources and a great literary and scientific heritage, proven unable to realize their great potential? Obolonsky has undertaken the formidable task of reinterpreting Russian history from the Time of Troubles and the reign of Ivan the Terrible through the end of 2001. 410 0$aEastern European studies (College Station, Tex.) ;$vno. 19. 606 $aPolitical rights$zRussia 606 $aPolitical rights$zSoviet Union 607 $aRussia$xPolitics and government 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPolitical rights 615 0$aPolitical rights 676 $a947 700 $aObolonskii$b A. V$g(Aleksandr Valentinovich)$01646078 701 $aOstrom$b Vincent$f1919-2012.$0120160 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821902103321 996 $aThe drama of Russian political history$93992900 997 $aUNINA