Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism, and Civil Society

by Joseph Bradley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032799
• ISBN13: 9780674032798
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"