Over the five years following the Russian revolution of 1917 there occurred a brilliant outburst of theory and criticism among Russian intellectuals struggling to comprehend their country's vast social upheaval. Much of their intense speculation focused on issues that are still hotly debated: Was this socialism? Why had the revolution happened in Russia? What did Bolshevik power mean for Russia and the Western world? This compelling study recovers these early responses to 1917 and analyzes the specific ideological context out of which they emerged. Jane Burbank explores the ideas and...
Over the five years following the Russian revolution of 1917 there occurred a brilliant outburst of theory and criticism among Russian intellectuals s...
"On the basis of the work presented here, one can say that the future of American scholarship on imperial Russia is in good hands." American Historial Review
..". innovative and substantive research... " The Russian Review
"Anyone wishing to understand the 'state of the field' in Imperial Russian history would do well to start with this collection." Theodore W. Weeks, H-Net Reviews
"The essays are impressive in terms of research conceptualization, and analysis." Slavic Review
Presenting the results of new research and fresh approaches, the historians whose work is...
"On the basis of the work presented here, one can say that the future of American scholarship on imperial Russia is in good hands." American Histor...
Russian Empire offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. An international team of scholars explores the connections between Russia's expansion over vast territories occupied by people of many ethnicities, religions, and political experiences and the evolution of imperial administration and vision. The fresh research reflected in this innovative volume reveals the ways in which the realities of sustaining imperial power in a multiethnic, multiconfessional, scattered, and diffuse environment inspired...
Russian Empire offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empir...
..". will challenge (and should transform) existing interpretations of late Imperial Russian governance, peasant studies, and Russian legal history." --Cathy A. Frierson
..". a major contribution to our understanding both of the dynamic of change within the peasantry and of legal development in late Imperial Russia." --William G. Wagner
Russian Peasants Go to Court brings into focus the legal practice of Russian peasants in the township courts of the Russian empire from 1905 through 1917. Contrary to prevailing conceptions of peasants as backward, drunken, and ignorant, and as...
..". will challenge (and should transform) existing interpretations of late Imperial Russian governance, peasant studies, and Russian legal history...
