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Author Obolonskiĭ, A. V. (Aleksandr Valentinovich)

Title The drama of Russian political history : system against individuality / Alexander V. Obolonsky ; foreword by Vincent Ostrom.

Publication Info. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2003]
©2003

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 271 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Eastern European studies ; no. 19
Eastern European studies (College Station, Tex.) ; no. 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268) and index.
Contents On methodology and general concepts -- The time of troubles: 1606 1612, and the rest of the seventeenth century -- The devastating course of Peter's "modernization": the eighteenth century age of lost opportunities -- Romantic Decembrists and pessimistic philosophers: the dualism of the first generation Russian intelligentsia -- A decisive junction: the epoch of Alexander II -- After the catastrophe: the penultimate Romanov reign -- The evening glow -- The inverted pyramid -- Stalinism: high noon of system-centeredness -- After Stalin: the system yields to fatigue -- At the new crossroads.
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Summary "Obolonsky has undertaken the formidable task of reinterpreting Russian history from the Time of Troubles to the dismantling of the Soviet system under Gorbachev and Yeltsin and others. He seeks to understand the present and assess the social trends that will shape the future through a careful reconsideration of Russia's past." "Obolonsky structures his analysis of historical trends around two opposing concepts - a system-centered understanding of social existence in which individuals are viewed as "cogs" functioning for the sake of the whole, and a liberal person-centered paradigm in which society seeks to promote the development of the individual. He distrusts all monistic explanations, preferring to utilize a variety of variables - ethical, economic, sociopsychological, cultural - to explain Russian history, and presenting its course as a long-term and ongoing struggle between two competing models of life. Defining several critical junctures from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, Obolonsky focuses on these "historical crossroads", at which the course of history might have been changed either in favor of a person-centered way of life or a system-centered trajectory. Currently, Obolonsky maintains, Russia is again at a challenging crossroad, and the future is still open to each of these two different paths." "Students of Russian history, politics, and culture, and also those interested in the broader issues of twentieth-century society will find this informative magnum opus of a senior Russian scholar insightful and thought-provoking."--Jacket.
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Subject Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government.
Russia (Federation)
Politics and government.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government.
Soviet Union.
Political rights -- Russia.
Political rights.
Russia.
Political rights -- Soviet Union.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Added Author Ostrom, Vincent, 1919-2012.
Added Title Drama rossiĭskoĭ politicheskoĭ istorii. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002036965
Other Form: Print version: Obolonskiĭ, A.V. (Aleksandr Valentinovich). Drama rossiĭskoĭ politicheskoĭ istorii. English. Drama of Russian political history. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2003 1585442240 (DLC) 2002012708 (OCoLC)50404073
ISBN 1585449881 (electronic book)
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