Liberty, Equality, and the Market : Essays by B.N. Chicherin / B. N. Chicherin, Gary M. Hamburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chicherin, B. N., Author.

Contributor:

Hamburg, Gary M., editor.

Series:

Russian literature and thought Liberty, equality, and the market

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--19th century--Russia.

Political science.

Liberalism--Russia.

Liberalism.

Philosophy, Russian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings the remarkable writings of Russian liberal thinker Boris Nikolaevich Chicherin (1828-1904) to English-language readers for the first time. The collection includes key essays in which Chicherin addresses the central political and social problems that confronted Russia from 1855 to the opening years of the twentieth century. Chicherin’s ideological alternatives to the Bolshevik plan for revolutionary transformation of Russia not only provide valuable historical insights, but also are highly relevant to current political discussion of liberalism in Russia and in the West.In a comprehensive introduction to the book, G. M. Hamburg discusses the development of Chicherin’s thought and places it in historical context. Chicherin, Hamburg says, was a powerful and sophisticated but often misunderstood defender of civil and political rights. Like his fellow liberals in Russia, Chicherin was heavily influenced by German idealism and particularly by Hegel. He departed from many, however, in favoring a market economy and advocating that reform efforts be tailored to local conditions and traditions. In this collection Chicherin explores such contemporary issues as the abolition of serfdom, Russian education, and the need for a constitution. He also tackles broad philosophical problems—the nature of liberty and equality, styles of political discourse—and comments on such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, More, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Hegel, and Marx.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword: Why Read Chicherin? / Gary Saul Morson

Translator's Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction: An Eccentric Vision: The Political Philosophy of B. N. Chicherin

Part One. Early Political Writings

On Serfdom

Contemporary Tasks of Russian Life

"Indictment": An Open Letter to Alexander Herzen

Part Two. Excerpts from On Popular Representation

Representation and Sovereignty

Political Liberty and Its Development

The Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty

Properties of Popular Representation

Part Three. Studies in European Thought

Plato and Aristotle

More and Machiavelli

Montesquieu

Hegel

Marx

Part Four. Excerpts from Property and State

Liberty

Equality

Capitalism and Socialism

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed December 16 2025)

ISBN:

0-300-14416-4

OCLC:

1024049037