Dmitry Shlapentokh

The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life (eBook, PDF)

1865-1905

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The interest of Russian intellectuals in the French Revolution demonstrates that some Russian thinkers of the 19th century had begun to question the concept of Russia's uniqueness. Yet most of them came to believe that the French Revolution (which they tended to equate with the Western experience) was irrelevant not only to Russia but to the rest of the world as well. They saw, perhaps correctly, that the Western experience, with the French Revolution as its symbol, was foreign to Russian destiny. Most of the Russian intellectuals of that time had rightly foreseen Russia, and to some degree the rest of the world's future, as following an authoritarian/totalitarian model of development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313024054
• Artikelnr.: 37812912

Autorenporträt

DMITRY SHLAPENTOKH is an Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University South Bend.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Prologue to a New Wave of Russian Thought Conservative Thought
and the French Revolution Conservative Slavophilism Conservative
Occidentophilism Tragic Thinkers The Liberals Respond French Revolution as
a Manifestation of Capitalism French Revolution as a Striving for Freedom
Radicals and the French Revolution Herzen and the Problem of Russian
Destiny The Terror and Russian Radical Thought Theoretical Myths: Jacobins
and the Power Struggle Among Russian Social-Democrats Conclusion
Bibliography Index