On the eve of World War I, Russia, not known as a nation of
joiners, had thousands of voluntary associations. Joseph Bradley
examines the crucial role of voluntary associations in the
development of civil society in Russia from the late eighteenth to
the early twentieth century.
Russians populated a growing public sphere with societies based
on the model of the European enlightenment. Owing to the mission of
such learned associations as the Free Economic Society, the Moscow
Agricultural Society, and the Russian Geographical Society, civil
society became inextricably linked to patriotism and the
dissemination of scientific knowledge. Although civil society and
the autocratic state are often described as bitter rivals,
cooperation in the project of national prestige and prosperity was
more often the rule. However, an increasing public assertiveness
challenged autocratic authority, and associations became a focal
point of a contradictory political culture: they fostered a
state-society partnership but at the same time were a critical
element in the effort to emancipate society from autocracy and
arbitrary officialdom.
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