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This book represents the first concerted effort to place 19th and 20th century Russia in European context, as well as to understand Soviet Russia against the historical background of Imperial Russia. In a wide-ranging selection of topics--from corporal punishment to diary-writing, from the rise of nationalism to biological engineering--the authors argue that Russia shared in a larger European modernity marked by increased overlap and sometimes merger of realms that had previously been treated as separate entities: the social and the political, state and society, government and economy, and private and public.
In this monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914,
economic and social change is considered alongside Russian
political culture. Looking at such historical actors as Sergei
Witte, Piotr Stolypin, and Alexander Chaianov, and by tapping into
several newly opened Russian local and state archives on peasant
practice in the movement, Kotsonis suggests how cooperatives
reflected a pan-European dilemma over whether and to what extent
populations could participate in their own transformation.
In this first monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before
1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian
political culture. Looking at such historical actors as Sergei
Witte, Piotr Stolypin, and Alexander Chaianov, and by tapping into
several newly opened Russian local and state archives on peasant
practice in the movement, Kotsonis suggests how cooperatives
reflected a pan-European dilemma over whether and to what extent
populations could participate in their own transformation.
Russian Modernity places Imperial and Soviet Russia in a European
context. Russia shared in a larger European modernity marked by
increased overlap and sometimes merger of realms that had
previously been treated as discrete entities: the social and the
political, state and society, government and economy, and private
and public. These were attributes of Soviet dictatorship, but their
origins can be located in a larger European context and in the
emergence of modern forms of government in Imperial Russia.
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