TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bradley,Joseph
TI  - Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism, and Civil Society
SN  - 9780674053601
AV  - HS71 
U1  - 369.0947/09034 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Associations, institutions, etc.-Russia-History
KW  - Civil society-Russia-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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