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Slavophile Empire : Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (254 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801459450
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Slavophile EmpireDDC classification:
  • 947.08
LOC classification:
  • DK189 -- .E54 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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