Slavophile Empire : Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path.
Engelstein, Laura.
Slavophile Empire : Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (254 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Discordant Choir -- 1. Combined Underdevelopment: Discipline and the Law in Imperial and Soviet Russia -- 2. Revolution and the Theater of Public Life: The Triumph of Extremes -- 3. The Dream of Civil Society: The Law, the State, and Religious Toleration -- 4. Holy Russia in Modern Times: The Slavophile Quest for the Lost Faith -- 5. Orthodox Self-Reflection in a Modernizing Age: The Case of Ivan and Natal'ia Kireevskii -- 6. Between Art and Icon: Aleksandr Ivanov's Russian Christ -- 7. The Old Slavophile Steed: Failed Nationalism and the Philosophers' Jewish Problem -- Index.
Engelstein asks how Russia's identity came to be defined in terms of an consensus opposed to Western-style liberalism, examining debates on religion and secularism, the role of culture and the law, and the status of the empire's ethnic peripheries.
9780801459450
Political culture -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
Slavophilism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
Liberalism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
Russians -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 19th century.
Nationalism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
Religion and state -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
Russia -- Politics and government -- 1801-1917.
Electronic books.
DK189 -- .E54 2009eb
947.08
Slavophile Empire : Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (254 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Discordant Choir -- 1. Combined Underdevelopment: Discipline and the Law in Imperial and Soviet Russia -- 2. Revolution and the Theater of Public Life: The Triumph of Extremes -- 3. The Dream of Civil Society: The Law, the State, and Religious Toleration -- 4. Holy Russia in Modern Times: The Slavophile Quest for the Lost Faith -- 5. Orthodox Self-Reflection in a Modernizing Age: The Case of Ivan and Natal'ia Kireevskii -- 6. Between Art and Icon: Aleksandr Ivanov's Russian Christ -- 7. The Old Slavophile Steed: Failed Nationalism and the Philosophers' Jewish Problem -- Index.
Engelstein asks how Russia's identity came to be defined in terms of an consensus opposed to Western-style liberalism, examining debates on religion and secularism, the role of culture and the law, and the status of the empire's ethnic peripheries.
9780801459450
Political culture -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
Slavophilism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
Liberalism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
Russians -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 19th century.
Nationalism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
Religion and state -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
Russia -- Politics and government -- 1801-1917.
Electronic books.
DK189 -- .E54 2009eb
947.08