Russian Modernity - (Politics, Knowledge and Practices, 1800-1950) by D Hoffmann & Y Kotsonis (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

'...the authors have opened up interesting areas and raised important questions.' - American Historical Review

'...the questions and approaches are representative of some of the best new work in the field.' - Slavic Review

About the Author

GOLFO ALEXOPOULOS Assistant Professor of History, University of South Florida FRANCES BERNSTEIN Fellow, Kennan Institute, Washington, DC FREDERICK CORNEY Assistant Professor of History, University of Florida JOCHEN HELLBECK Member of the Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan PETER HOLQUIST Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University NATHANIEL KNIGHT Assistant Professor of History, Seton Hall University TERRY MARTIN Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University KENNETH M. PINNOW formerly Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Brooklyn Polytechnic University ABBY M. SCHRADER Assistant Professor of History, Franklin and Marshall College CHARLES STEINWEDEL Ph.D. Student, Columbia University