| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-352) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Russian associations -- European societies and the state : Russia in comparative perspective -- The application of science : the Free Economic Society and the Moscow Agricultural Society -- The quest for national identity : the Russian Geographical Society -- Patriotism and useful knowledge : the Society of Friends of Natural History -- Government and the public trust : the Russian Technical Society and education for industry -- Advocacy in the public sphere : scientific congresses -- Conclusion : an unstable partnership. |
| Summary |
This text investigates the role of learned, mostly scientific societies in building civil society in imperial Russia. It challenges the idea that Russia did not have the building blocks of a democratic society. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Associations, institutions, etc. -- Russia -- History.
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Associations, institutions, etc. |
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Russia. |
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History. |
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Civil society -- Russia -- History.
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Civil society. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bradley, Joseph. Voluntary associations in Tsarist Russia. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 9780674032798 (DLC) 2008047153 (OCoLC)261175197 |
| ISBN |
9780674053601 (electronic book) |
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0674053605 (electronic book) |
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9780674032798 |
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0674032799 |
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