Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet
history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers
new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To
Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across
its borders. By reexamining conceptions of modernity, ideology, and
cultural transformation, he challenges the polarizing camps of
Soviet exceptionalism and shared modernity and instead strives for
a theoretical and empirical middle ground as the basis for a
creative and richly textured analysis. Discussions of Soviet
modernity have tended to see the Soviet state either as an archaic
holdover from the Russian past, or as merely another form of
conventional modernity. David-Fox instead considers the Soviet
Union in its own light-as a seismic shift from tsarist society that
attracted influential visitors from the pacifist Left to the
fascist Right. By reassembling Russian legacies, as he shows, the
Soviet system evolved into a complex "intelligentsia-statist" form
that introduced an array of novel agendas and practices, many
embodied in the unique structures of the party-state. Crossing
Borders demonstrates the need for a new interpretation of the
Russian-Soviet historical trajectory-one that strikes a balance
between the particular and the universal.
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