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Author Wortman, Richard, author.

Title The power of language and rhetoric in Russian political history : charismatic words from the 18th to the 21st centuries / Richard S. Wortman.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Kul'turnost' and the Rhetoric of Proper Conduct; Kul'turnost'; Words of Behest, Words of Edification: Eighteenth-Century Cultural Policies; 2 The Rhetoric of Consent: Radost', Liubov', Umilenie and Vostorg; Baroque Demonstrations of Consent; The Allure of Sentiment: Alexander I; Vostorg and Umilenie; Alexander II: Terms of Reciprocity; The Millennium of Rus: The Apogee of Sentiment; 3 Lichnost' and the Rhetoric of Duty: The Ethos of Service; Nicholas Karamzin and Ethical Dualism.
The Loss of BearingsThe Birth of the Intelligentsia: The Discovery of Lichnost'; Hegel and the Destiny of the Individual; 4 Lichnost' and the Rhetoric of Duty: In Quest of New Ideals; The Scientific Turn; The "Subjective Sociologists" and the Primacy of Lichnost'; The Critique of Lichnost'; The Aftermath of Revolution and the New Meanings of Lichnost'; Later Developments; 5 Pravda and the Rhetoric of Moral Transcendence; Pravda and Zakon; Tolstoy, Dostoevskii, Soloviev, and Pravda; Philosophical Awakening: The Critique of Pravda; Lenin and Pravda.
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Subject Russia -- History -- 1613-1917 -- Historiography.
Soviet Union -- Historiography.
Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991- -- Historiography.
Language and history.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.
History of ideas.
European history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Historiography
Language and history
Russia
Russia (Federation) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhhmCp3jtcMQbx3WgpXVC
Soviet Union
Chronological Term Since 1613
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Wortman, Richard. Power of language and rhetoric in Russian political history. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781350040663 (DLC) 2017009969 (OCoLC)978972130
ISBN 9781350040670 (electronic bk.)
1350040673 (electronic bk.)
9781350040663
1350040665