The drama of Russian political history : system against individuality /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Russian |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2003.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Eastern European studies (College Station, Tex.) ;
no. 19. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of 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.
