Russia before the radiant future essays in modern history, culture, and society /
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.