More Shopping OptionsThis volume surveys nineteenth century Russian society and economy and finds that Russian institutions, practices and ideas fit the general European pattern for that period of rapid change. In the nineteenth century there were still many different ways to be European, and excessive generalization obscures the great diversity that still characterized European civilization. Moreover, these essays bring to light several points at which Russian legislation and thinking provided models for others to follow. The authors focus on key elements of how Russians envisaged and constructed their economy and society. This is an important contribution that increases understanding of Russian history at a time when Russia's relationship with the "West" is again debated.
Susan P. McCaffray is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
Michael Melancon is Professor of History at Auburn University.
"This book makes a significant contribution to the debate over the nature of Imperial Russian history. Not everyone will agree with it, but all those who study the subject will have to contend with its bold assertion of Russia's Europeanness."
--Steven G. Marks, author of How Russia Shaped the Modern World
"Kudos to the editors and contributors! Imperial Russia comes alive very much as a 'normal' society with commonality with the rest of Europe as well as uniqueness."
--David M. Goldfrank, Georgetown University
Envisioning an Economy * The Ties that Bind: The Role of the Russian Clan in Inheritance and Property Law--Lee Farrow * Capital, Industriousness and Private Banks in the Economic Imagination of a Nineteenth-Century Statesman--Susan McCaffray * Towards a Comprehensive Law: Tsarist Factory Labor Legislation in European Context, 1830-1914--Boris Gorshkov * Rereading Old Texts: Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia--Frank Wcislo * Religious and Nationalist Aspects of Entrepreneurialism in Russia--Boris V. Ananich * Envisioning a Society * The Role of "Europe" in Russian Nationalism: Reinterpreting the Relationship between Russia and the West in Slavophile Thought--Susanna Rabow-Edling * Statistics, Social Science and Social Justice: The Zemstvo Statisticians of Pre-Revolutionary Russia--Esther Kingston-Mann * The Temple of Idleness? Associations and the Public Sphere in Provincial Russia--Lutz Haefner * Russian Punishments in the European Mirror--Jonathan Daly * St. Petersburg Workers and Implementation of the Social Insurance Law of 1912--Alice Pate *Russia's Outlooks on the Present and Future, 1910-1914: What the Press Tells Us--Michael Melancon *
