Modernism and Public Reform in Late Imperial Russia: Rural Professionals and Self-Organization, 1905-30

By Ilya V. Gerasimov

Book Overview

Introduction PART I: STRUCTURES OF MOBILIZATION Becoming 'Progressive': Structural Settings and Mental Mapping of Reformism Bringing Up a New Generation of Intelligentsia Transfer of the Italian Technology of Modernization and Birth of the Russian 'Public Agronomy' Project PART II: DYNAMICS OF MODERNIZATION The Ambivalent Role of the State: A Conservative Patron and a 'Progressive' Rival The Economic Foundations of Social Mobilization From Knowledge to Influence: Building a Bridge to the New Peasant At the Crossroads: Coping with Modernization as Routine PART III: PATTERNS OF 'NATIONALIZATION' Nation as Motherland Nation as the People Revolutionary Nation The Dissolution of the 'Imagined Community': Nationalization as Expropriation Postscript

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349310883
• ISBN13: 9781349310883
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"