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…mehr
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 of 1917 and offer original interpretations that are of interest to the educated layman as well as the professional historian.
Michael Confino (1926-2010) was Professor Emeritus in History at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem. He was the author of numerous books and articles on modern Russian and comparative history, and on social, intellectual, and agrarian developments under the Old Regime; he served as Visiting Professor at Harvard (1969, 1978), Stanford (1979, 1985), the University of Chicago (1966, 1968, 1970), Duke (1987), and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1974, 1976).
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Foreword A Note on Transliteration and Dates Acknowledgments Introduction: The Discipline and I PART I: THE FATE OF IDEAS IN HISTORY Chapter 1. Alexander Herzen and Isaiah Berlin on Russia's Elusive Counter-Enlightenment Chapter 2. Russian and Western European Roots of Soviet Totalitarianism Chapter 3. Traditions, Old and New: Patterns of Protest and Dissent in Modern Russia PART II: SOCIAL GROUPS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Chapter 4. On Intellectuals and Intellectual Traditions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russia Chapter 5. The Nobility in Russia and Western Europe: Contrasts and Similarities Chapter 6. Comparing Russian Serfdom and American Slavery Chapter 7. Agrarian Crisis, Urbanization, and the Russian Peasants at the End of the Old Regime, 1880s-1920s PART III: APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA Chapter 8. Re-inventing the Enlightenment: Western Images and Eastern Realities in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 9. Political Murder in Russian Culture: Comparisons and Counterfactuals Chapter 10. Current Events and the Representation of the Past: Issues in Russian Historical Writing Afterword Bibliography Index
Foreword A Note on Transliteration and Dates Acknowledgments Introduction: The Discipline and I PART I: THE FATE OF IDEAS IN HISTORY Chapter 1. Alexander Herzen and Isaiah Berlin on Russia's Elusive Counter-Enlightenment Chapter 2. Russian and Western European Roots of Soviet Totalitarianism Chapter 3. Traditions, Old and New: Patterns of Protest and Dissent in Modern Russia PART II: SOCIAL GROUPS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Chapter 4. On Intellectuals and Intellectual Traditions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russia Chapter 5. The Nobility in Russia and Western Europe: Contrasts and Similarities Chapter 6. Comparing Russian Serfdom and American Slavery Chapter 7. Agrarian Crisis, Urbanization, and the Russian Peasants at the End of the Old Regime, 1880s-1920s PART III: APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA Chapter 8. Re-inventing the Enlightenment: Western Images and Eastern Realities in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 9. Political Murder in Russian Culture: Comparisons and Counterfactuals Chapter 10. Current Events and the Representation of the Past: Issues in Russian Historical Writing Afterword Bibliography Index
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