Russian Modernity
Politics, Knowledge and Practices, 1800-1950
Published on 27. October 2000
Book
Hardback
VIII, 279 pages
978-0-312-22599-5 (ISBN)
Description
Russian Modernity places Imperial and Soviet Russia in a European context. Russia shared in a larger European modernity marked by increased overlap and sometimes merger of realms that had previously been treated as discrete entities: the social and the political, state and society, government and economy, and private and public. These were attributes of Soviet dictatorship, but their origins can be located in a larger European context and in the emergence of modern forms of government in Imperial Russia.
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'...the authors have opened up interesting areas and raised important questions.' - American Historical Review
'...the questions and approaches are representative of some of the best new work in the field.' - Slavic Review
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Edition
2000 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
VIII, 279 p.
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-312-22599-5 (9780312225995)
DOI
10.1057/9780230288126
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
07/2000
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
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Persons
GOLFO ALEXOPOULOS Assistant Professor of History, University of South Florida
FRANCES BERNSTEIN Fellow, Kennan Institute, Washington, DC
FREDERICK CORNEY Assistant Professor of History, University of Florida
JOCHEN HELLBECK Member of the Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan
PETER HOLQUIST Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University
NATHANIEL KNIGHT Assistant Professor of History, Seton Hall University
TERRY MARTIN Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University
KENNETH M. PINNOW formerly Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Brooklyn Polytechnic University
ABBY M. SCHRADER Assistant Professor of History, Franklin and Marshall College
CHARLES STEINWEDEL Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Content
List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors INTRODUCTION A Modern Paradox: Subject and Citizen in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Russia; Y.Kotsonis PART I: TOWARD A MODERN POLITICS: CONSCIOUSNESS AND UNIVERSALISM IN PRE-REFORM RUSSIA Branding the Exile as 'Other': Corporal Punishment and the Construction of Boundaries in Mid-nineteenth-century Russia; A.M.Schrader Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: Narodnost' and Modernity in Imperial Russia; N.Knight PART II: REFORM AND REVOLUTION AS MODERN MOMENTS To Make a Difference: The Category of Ethnicity in Late Imperial Russian Politics, 1861-1917; C.Steinwedel What's So Revolutionary about the Russian Revolution? State Practices and the New-Style Politics, 1914-1921; P.Holquist PART III: THE PARADOX OF HUMAN REDEEMABILITY IN SOVIET RUSSIA Cutting and Counting: Forensic Medicine as a Science of Society in Bolshevik Russia, 1920-1929; K.M.Pinnow Science, Glands, and the Medical Construction of Gender Difference in Revolutionary Russia; F.L.Bernstein Modernization or Neo-Traditionalism? Ascribed Nationality and Soviet Primordialism; T.Martin PART IV: NARRATIVE AND IDENTITY IN THE SOVIET CONTEXT Narratives of October and the Issue of Legitimacy; F.C.Corney Victims Talk: Defense Testimony and Denunciation under Stalin; G.Alexopoulos Self-Realization in the Stalinist System: Two Soviet Diaries of the 1930s; J.Hellbeck CONCLUSION European Modernity and Soviet Socialism; D.L.Hoffmann Index