Modernism and Public Reform in Late Imperial Russia: Rural Professionals and Self-Organization, 1905-30

by Ilya V. Gerasimov

Book Overview

Introduction PART I: STRUCTURES OF MOBILIZATION Becoming 'Progressive': Structural Settings and Mental Mapping of Reformism Bringing Up a New Generation of Intelligentsia Transfer of the Italian Technology of Modernization and Birth of the Russian 'Public Agronomy' Project PART II: DYNAMICS OF MODERNIZATION The Ambivalent Role of the State: A Conservative Patron and a 'Progressive' Rival The Economic Foundations of Social Mobilization From Knowledge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230229476
• ISBN13: 9780230229471
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.8"