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Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia : Science, Patriotism, and Civil Society.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (385 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674053601
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Voluntary Associations in Tsarist RussiaDDC classification:
  • 369.0947/09034
LOC classification:
  • HS71
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Russian Associations -- 1. European Societies and the State: Russia in Comparative Perspective -- 2. The Application of Science: The Free Economic Society and the Moscow Agricultural Society -- 3. The Quest for National Identity: The Russian Geographical Society -- 4. Patriotism and Useful Knowledge: The Society of Friends of Natural History -- 5. Government and the Public Trust: The Russian Technical Society and Education for Industry -- 6. Advocacy in the Public Sphere: Scientific Congresses -- Conclusion: An Unstable Partnership -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: On the eve of World War I, Russia, not known as a nation of joiners, had thousands of voluntary associations. Joseph Bradley examines the crucial role of voluntary associations in the development of civil society in Russia from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Russian Associations -- 1. European Societies and the State: Russia in Comparative Perspective -- 2. The Application of Science: The Free Economic Society and the Moscow Agricultural Society -- 3. The Quest for National Identity: The Russian Geographical Society -- 4. Patriotism and Useful Knowledge: The Society of Friends of Natural History -- 5. Government and the Public Trust: The Russian Technical Society and Education for Industry -- 6. Advocacy in the Public Sphere: Scientific Congresses -- Conclusion: An Unstable Partnership -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.

On the eve of World War I, Russia, not known as a nation of joiners, had thousands of voluntary associations. Joseph Bradley examines the crucial role of voluntary associations in the development of civil society in Russia from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

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