Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia - From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution

Lucidly written and accessible, this book adds the important yet neglected Russian aspect to the history of political liberalism. Vanessa Rampton examines Russian engagement with liberal ideas, revealing how they helped shape Russia's political landscape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

List of contents

Introduction: conceptions of liberalism in Imperial Russia; 1. Inside out: freedom, rights and the idea of progress in nineteenth-century Russia; 2. Progress, contested: positivist and neo-idealist liberalism; 3. Freedom, differently: liberalism in 1905 and its aftermath; 4. Liberalism undone: the loss of cohesion on the eve of 1917; 5. Conversations with Western ideas I: conflict between values; 6. Conversations with Western ideas II: progress and freedom; Conclusion.

About the author

Vanessa Rampton is a Branco Weiss Fellow in the Institute for Health and Social Policy and Department of Philosophy at McGill University, Montréal. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich's Chair for Practical Philosophy. Trained as a historian of ideas, she has a long-standing interest in how empirical examples can challenge commonly held assumptions about ideologies.

Summary

Lucidly written and accessible, this book adds the important yet neglected Russian aspect to the history of political liberalism. Vanessa Rampton examines Russian engagement with liberal ideas, revealing how they helped shape Russia's political landscape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa Rampton, Vanessa (Mcgill University Rampton, Vanessa (Swiss Federal University (ETH) Rampton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781108483735
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48373-5
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, Russia, European History, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social & political philosophy, c 1500 onwards to present day, social and political philosophy, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, C 1700 To C 1800, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies