Slavophile empire [[electronic resource] ] : Imperial Russia's illiberal path / / Laura Engelstein

• Autore: Engelstein Laura
• Pubblicazione: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 947.08
• Soggetto topico: Political culture - Russia - History - 19th century; Slavophilism - Russia - History - 19th century; Liberalism - Russia - History - 19th century; Russians - Ethnic identity - History - 19th century; Nationalism - Russia - History - 19th century; Religion and state - Russia - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Russia Politics and government 1801-1917; Russia Intellectual life 1801-1917
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Discordant Choir -- 1. Combined Underdevelopment -- 2. Revolution and the Theater of Public Life -- 3. The Dream of Civil Society -- 4. Holy Russia in Modern Times -- 5. Orthodox Self-Reflection in a Modernizing Age -- 6. Between Art and Icon -- 7. The Old Slavophile Steed -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Twentieth-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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Slavophile empire
• ISBN: 0-8014-5945-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823709303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II