The Radical Right in Late Imperial Russia: Dreams of a True Fatherland?

ISBN-13: 9781138476707 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 258 str.

UK) George (University of Southampton Gilbert

Opis

The revolutionary movements in late tsarist Russia inspired a reaction by groups on the right. Although these groups were ostensibly defending the status quo, they were in fact, as this book argues, very radical in many ways. This book discusses these radical rightist groups, showing how they developed considerable popular appeal across the whole Russian Empire, securing support from a wide cross-section of society.

Europe-Asia Studies
The book convincingly argues that the Russian right was qualitatively different from traditional conservatism,
and that it shared commonalities with other rightist groups in fin-de-siècle Europe...The book is an important contribution to the history of the Russian right, a topic that has great relevance
to post-Soviet Russian society. The incorporation of new archival materials, mainly police reports, into
the research helps to clarify the intricate relationship between the radical right and autocracy.

ALEXANDRA MEDZIBRODSZKY, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Recenzje

'The book includes a helpful glossary of rightist individuals and organizations and a detailed map of the Pale of Settlement... the book greatly increases our knowledge of the Russian right.'

Jonathan Daly, University of Illinois at Chicago, Slavonic and East European Review

"It is refreshing when an author articulates his book’s main argument as clearly and succinctly as George Gilbert does on the first page of this fine study...The far-reaching value of Gilbert’s book is to remind us all—especially the younger generation of Russia experts brought up during the 1990s—that conservative and nationalist movements are integral components of civil society. We ignore them at the risk of blinding ourselves to very important social and political trends."

Anton Fedyashin, American University, Slavic Review

"The book is an important contribution to the history of the Russian right, a topic that has great relevance to post-Soviet Russian society."

Alexandra Medzibrodszky, Central European University, Europe-Asia Studies

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Precedents and Origins  2. In Reaction to Revolution  3. Across the Empire  4. Popular Mobilization  5. Russia Renewed  6. Towards Catastrophe 7. Conclusion

O autorze

George Gilbert is a Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at the University of Southampton, UK.