Beschreibung:
Lucidly written and accessible, this book adds the important yet neglected Russian aspect to the history of political liberalism. Vanessa Rampton examines Russian engagement with liberal ideas, revealing how they helped shape Russia's political landscape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Introduction: conceptions of liberalism in Imperial Russia; 1. Inside out: freedom, rights and the idea of progress in nineteenth-century Russia; 2. Progress, contested: positivist and neo-idealist liberalism; 3. Freedom, differently: liberalism in 1905 and its aftermath; 4. Liberalism undone: the loss of cohesion on the eve of 1917; 5. Conversations with Western ideas I: conflict between values; 6. Conversations with Western ideas II: progress and freedom; Conclusion.