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Liberal ideas in Tsarist Russia : from Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution / Vanessa Rampton, McGill University.

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"Liberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat in countries where they seemed relatively secure. Lucidly written and accessible, this book offers an important yet neglected Russian aspect to the history of political libera...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Rampton, Vanessa, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Ideas in context ; 126.
Subjects:
Liberalism > Russia (Federation) > History > 19th century.
Liberalism > Russia (Federation) > History > 20th century.
Russia > Politics and government > 1801-1917.
Liberalism.
Politics and government.
Russia.
Russia (Federation)
1800-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series information
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Dates, Transliteration, and Other Conventions
  • Introduction: Conceptions of Liberalism in Imperial Russia
  • 0.1 Western Theories
  • 0.1.1 Selfhood
  • 0.1.2 Freedom
  • 0.2 Western Practices
  • 0.3 Liberalism between Freedom and Justice
  • 0.4 Making History
  • 0.5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 1 Inside Out: Freedom, Rights, and the Idea of Progress in Nineteenth-Century Russia
  • 1.1 The Emergence of Russian Liberalism
  • 1.1.1 Russian Enlightenment
  • 1.1.2 Westernizers and Slavophiles
  • 1.1.3 Statist Liberalism and Positive Liberty
  • 1.2 Individual Freedom and Social Justice in Russian Thought
  • 1.2.1 Aleksandr Herzen
  • 1.2.2 Russian Populism
  • 1.2.3 From Marxism to Idealism
  • 1.3 Religious Liberalism and Positive Liberty (Vladimir Solov'ëv)
  • Chapter 2 Progress, Contested: Positivist and Neo-Idealist Liberalism
  • 2.1 Positivist and Anti-positivist Conceptions of Freedom in the European fin de siècle
  • 2.1.1 Positivism
  • 2.1.2 Anti-positivism
  • 2.2 Epistemologies of Liberal Freedom in the Russian Silver Age
  • 2.2.1 The Russian Silver Age
  • 2.2.2 Russian Neo-Idealist Liberalism
  • 2.2.2.1 Idealist Views of Selfhood and Liberal Theory
  • 2.2.2.2 Idealist Views of Freedom and Liberal Theory
  • 2.2.3 Positivist Liberalism
  • Chapter 3 Freedom, Differently: Liberalism in 1905 and Its Aftermath
  • 3.1 The Liberation Movement
  • 3.1.1 Origins and Membership
  • 3.1.2 The Union of Liberation
  • 3.2 Concepts of Freedom Revisited: 1905
  • 3.2.1 Freedom and Revolution
  • 3.2.2 Freedom and Order
  • 3.3 Freedom and Liberal Politics, 1906-1914
  • 3.3.1 Rule-of-Law State
  • 3.3.2 Legislation or Revolution
  • 3.3.3 Shifting Allies, 1907 to 1914
  • Chapter 4 Liberalism Undone: The Loss of Cohesion on the Eve of 1917
  • 4.1 Outlines of a Debate: 1905-1909
  • 4.2 The Liberalism of Landmarks
  • 4.2.1 Positive Freedom
  • 4.2.1.1 Social Justice
  • 4.2.1.2 Self-Government
  • 4.2.1.3 Culture
  • 4.2.1.4 Nationalism
  • 4.2.2 Landmarks and the Tensions within Liberalism
  • 4.3 The Debate around Landmarks
  • Chapter 5 Conversations with Western Ideas I: Conflicts between Values
  • 5.1 Individual Freedom and Social Justice: Bogdan Kistiakovskii's Lawful Socialism
  • 5.1.1 Scientific-Philosophical Idealism
  • 5.1.2 From Social Ethics to Socialism
  • 5.2 Tensions between Freedoms and Liberal History: Pavel Novgorodtsev
  • 5.2.1 Metaphysical Idealism
  • 5.2.2 Natural Law and Individual Rights
  • 5.2.3 Social Justice
  • 5.2.4 Reassessing Freedom in the Aftermath of Revolution
  • 5.2.4.1 A Liberal Conception of Selfhood
  • 5.2.4.2 A Liberal Conception of Freedom
  • Chapter 6 Conversations with Western Ideas II: Progress and Freedom
  • 6.1 'A Chapter in the History of Progress': The Thought of Maksim Kovalevskii
  • 6.1.1 Intellectual Development
  • 6.1.2 Theory of Freedom and Reality of Freedom

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