Russia before the radiant future
Subtitle: essays in modern history, culture, and society
By: Michael Confino
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781845457617
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The discipline and I; title: pt. 1. The fate of ideas in history; title: Alexander Herzen and Isaiah Berlin on Russia's elusive counter-Enlightenment; title: Russian and Western European roots of Soviet totalitarianism; title: Traditions, old and new : patterns of protest and dissent in modern Russia; title: pt. 2. Social groups in comparative perspective; title: On intellectuals and intellectual traditions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-   century Russia; title: The nobility in Russia and Western Europe : contrasts and similarities; title: Comparing Russian serfdom and American slavery; title: Agrarian crisis, urbanization, and the Russian peasants at the end of the old regime, 1880s-1920s; title: pt. 3. Approaches to the history of Russia; title: Re-inventing the Enlightenment : Western images and Eastern realities in the eighteenth century; title: Political murder in Russian culture : comparisons and counterfactuals; title: Current events and the representation of the past : issues in Russian historical writing; title: Afterword.