The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life: 1865-1905 - Hardcover

Dmitry Shlapentokh

 
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Synopsis

The interest of Russian intellectuals in the French Revolution demonstrates that some Russian thinkers of the 19th century had begun to question the concept of Russia's uniqueness. Yet most of them came to believe that the French Revolution (which they tended to equate with the Western experience) was irrelevant not only to Russia but to the rest of the world as well. They saw, perhaps correctly, that the Western experience, with the French Revolution as its symbol, was foreign to Russian destiny. Most of the Russian intellectuals of that time had rightly foreseen Russia, and to some degree the rest of the world's future, as following an authoritarian/totalitarian model of development.

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DMITRY SHLAPENTOKH is an Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University South Bend.

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ISBN 10:  1412807808 ISBN 13:  9781412807807
Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 2008
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