Russian studies / Leonard Schapiro ; edited by Ellen Dahrendorf with an introduction by Harry Willetts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schapiro, Leonard, 1908-1983.

Contributor:

Dahrendorf, Ellen.

Willetts, H. T.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Political and social views.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883--Political and social views.

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich.

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.

Liberalism--Russia.

Liberalism.

Political and social views.

Russia.

Socialism.

Russia--Politics and government--1894-1917.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

400 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First American edition].

Manufacture:

Bodmin, Cornwall : Printed by Robert Hartnoll (1985) Ltd.)

Place of Publication:

[New York, NY] : Viking [Penguin Inc.], [1987]

Contents:

My fifty years of social science

Liberalism and the Law. The importance of law in the study of politics and history; Liberalism in Russia; The pre-revolutionary intelligentsia and the legal order; The Vekhi group and the mystique of revolution; Stolypin-most controversial Russian statesman; The political thought of the First Provisional Government; Struve, liberal on the left; Struve, liberal on the right

Marxism and Revolution. Marxism in Russia; The concept of ideology as evolved by Marx and adapted by Lenin; Plekhanov; Lenin's intellectural formation and the Russian Revolutionary background; The Mensheviks; The role of Jews in the Russian Revolutionary Movement; Bukharin's way; A turning point in the history of socialism: the Kronstadt rising; Trotsky, as he really was

Literature and Ideas. Turgenev and Herzen: two modes of Russian political thought; A story of incompatibility: Dostoevsky and Turgenev; The triumph of humanity in Turgenev's work; Michael Bakunin: through chaos to utopia; The last years of Alexander Blok; Alexander Solzhenitsyn: conscience of western civilization.

Notes:

"Elisabeth Sifton Books."

"First American Edition. Published 1987."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has certain pages marked by yellow post-its with underlines and marginal marks.

ISBN:

0670812811 :

OCLC:

13902780