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Dimensions and Challenges of Russian Liberalism - Historical Drama and New Prospects (Hardcover, 2019 ed.)
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Dimensions and Challenges of Russian Liberalism - Historical Drama and New Prospects (Hardcover, 2019 ed.)
Series: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations, 8
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Liberalism in Russia is one of the most complex, multifaced and,
indeed, controversial phenomena in the history of political
thought. Values and practices traditionally associated with Western
liberalism-such as individual freedom, property rights, or the rule
of law-have often emerged ambiguously in the Russian historical
experience through different dimensions and combinations. Economic
and political liberalism have often appeared disjointed, and
liberal projects have been shaped by local circumstances, evolved
in response to secular challenges and developed within often
rapidly-changing institutional and international settings. This
third volume of the Reset DOC "Russia Workshop" collects a
selection of the Dimensions and Challenges of Russian Liberalism
conference proceedings, providing a broad set of insights into the
Russian liberal experience through a dialogue between past and
present, and intellectual and empirical contextualization,
involving historians, jurists, political scientists and theorists.
The first part focuses on the Imperial period, analyzing the
political philosophy and peculiarities of pre-revolutionary Russian
liberalism, its relations with the rule of law (Pravovoe
Gosudarstvo), and its institutionalization within the
Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets). The second part focuses
on Soviet times, when liberal undercurrents emerged under the
surface of the official Marxist-Leninist ideology. After Stalin's
death, the "thaw intelligentsia" of Soviet dissidents and human
rights defenders represented a new liberal dimension in late Soviet
history, while the reforms of Gorbachev's "New Thinking" became a
substitute for liberalism in the final decade of the USSR. The
third part focuses on the "time of troubles" under the Yeltsin
presidency, and assesses the impact of liberal values and ethics,
the bureaucratic difficulties in adapting to change, and the
paradoxes of liberal reforms during the transition to post-Soviet
Russia. Despite Russian liberals having begun to draw lessons from
previous failures, their project was severely challenged by the
rise of Vladimir Putin. Hence, the fourth part focuses on the
2000s, when the liberal alternative in Russian politics confronted
the ascendance of Putin, surviving in parts of Russian culture and
in the mindset of technocrats and "system liberals". Today,
however, the Russian liberal project faces the limits of reform
cycles of public administration, suffers from a lack of federalist
attitude in politics and is externally challenged from an illiberal
world order. All this asks us to consider: what is the likelihood
of a "reboot" of Russian liberalism?
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