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HIST 445/545 Russian Political Culture

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Professor Alan Kimball describes the course:

Universal doctrine of factions:  the interactions between and within social groups and institutions
Russian factions viewed over the "long duration":
church and state ("two swords"?)
aristocracy and the state (e. g., Andrei Kurbskii)
village institutions and cossacks
cities (the fabled Veche)
multicultural politics (suppression, assimilation and federalism)
the state versus the state (coups d'etat; Table of Ranks vs. sosloviia; official rank and social status)
Rise of the "intelligentsia": A Russian contribution to world history
Radishchev & progressive statism
Novikov (transition to civil society terminated)

1825 December 14:Petersburg, Senate Square. Decembrist Uprising

Decembrists and subsequent flourish of statist reaction
Petrashevtsy (modest hopes crushed by massive reaction)
The First Russian Revolutionary Situation and/or
the Era of Great Reforms (1860s)
The Second Revolutionary Situation (1870s-1881):
Populism & socialism
Marx & Russia
The First Russian Revolution, 1905:
Liberalism, Democracy, the first parliament (Duma)
The Second Russian Revolution, February 1917
Bolshevik Revolution and establishment of
single-party rule (factions under Communism?)
Collapse of USSR (Perestroika & "katastroika")
Rise of a new Russia:
Yeltsin
the new Parliament
capitalism & democracy, free market & mafia

 

 

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