Russia before the radiant future : essays in modern history, culture, and society / / Michael Confino

• Autore: Confino Michael <1926-2010.>
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 947
• Soggetto topico: Enlightenment
• Soggetto geografico: Russia Historiography; Russia Intellectual life; Russia Relations Western countries; Western countries Relations Russia; Russia Social conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: One 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Russia before the radiant future
• ISBN: 1-84545-993-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815834003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II