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- catalog abstract ""Obolonsky has undertaken the formidable task of reinterpreting Russian history from the Time of Troubles to the dismantling of the Soviet system under Gorbachev and Yeltsin and others. He seeks to understand the present and assess the social trends that will shape the future through a careful reconsideration of Russia's past." "Obolonsky structures his analysis of historical trends around two opposing concepts - a system-centered understanding of social existence in which individuals are viewed as "cogs" functioning for the sake of the whole, and a liberal person-centered paradigm in which society seeks to promote the development of the individual. He distrusts all monistic explanations, preferring to utilize a variety of variables - ethical, economic, sociopsychological, cultural - to explain Russian history, and presenting its course as a long-term and ongoing struggle between two competing models of life. Defining several critical junctures from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, Obolonsky focuses on these "historical crossroads", at which the course of history might have been changed either in favor of a person-centered way of life or a system-centered trajectory. Currently, Obolonsky maintains, Russia is again at a challenging crossroad, and the future is still open to each of these two different paths." "Students of Russian history, politics, and culture, and also those interested in the broader issues of twentieth-century society will find this informative magnum opus of a senior Russian scholar insightful and thought-provoking."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Drama rossiĭskoĭ politicheskoĭ istorii. English".
- catalog contributor b12752095.
- catalog contributor b12752096.
- catalog contributor b12752097.
- catalog coverage "Russia Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "Soviet Union Politics and government.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Obolonsky has undertaken the formidable task of reinterpreting Russian history from the Time of Troubles to the dismantling of the Soviet system under Gorbachev and Yeltsin and others. He seeks to understand the present and assess the social trends that will shape the future through a careful reconsideration of Russia's past." "Obolonsky structures his analysis of historical trends around two opposing concepts - a system-centered understanding of social existence in which individuals are viewed as "cogs" functioning for the sake of the whole, and a liberal person-centered paradigm in which society seeks to promote the development of the individual. He distrusts all monistic explanations, preferring to utilize a variety of variables - ethical, economic, sociopsychological, cultural - to explain Russian history, and presenting its course as a long-term and ongoing struggle between two competing models of life. Defining several critical junctures from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, Obolonsky focuses on these "historical crossroads", at which the course of history might have been changed either in favor of a person-centered way of life or a system-centered trajectory. Currently, Obolonsky maintains, Russia is again at a challenging crossroad, and the future is still open to each of these two different paths." "Students of Russian history, politics, and culture, and also those interested in the broader issues of twentieth-century society will find this informative magnum opus of a senior Russian scholar insightful and thought-provoking."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-268) and index.".
- catalog description "On methodology and general concepts -- The time of troubles: 1606 1612, and the rest of the seventeenth century -- The devastating course of Peter's "modernization": the eighteenth century age of lost opportunities -- Romantic Decembrists and pessimistic philosophers: the dualism of the first generation Russian intelligentsia -- A decisive junction: the epoch of Alexander II -- After the catastrophe: the penultimate Romanov reign -- The evening glow -- The inverted pyramid -- Stalinism: high noon of system-centeredness -- After Stalin: the system yields to fatigue -- At the new crossroads.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 271 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Drama of Russian political history.".
- catalog identifier "1585442240 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Drama of Russian political history.".
- catalog isPartOf "Eastern European studies (College Station, Tex.) ; no. 19.".
- catalog isPartOf "Eastern European studies ; no. 19".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng rus".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "College Station : Texas A&M University Press,".
- catalog relation "Drama of Russian political history.".
- catalog spatial "Russia Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Russia.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "947 21".
- catalog subject "DK61 .O2613 2003".
- catalog subject "Political rights Russia.".
- catalog subject "Political rights Soviet Union.".
- catalog tableOfContents "On methodology and general concepts -- The time of troubles: 1606 1612, and the rest of the seventeenth century -- The devastating course of Peter's "modernization": the eighteenth century age of lost opportunities -- Romantic Decembrists and pessimistic philosophers: the dualism of the first generation Russian intelligentsia -- A decisive junction: the epoch of Alexander II -- After the catastrophe: the penultimate Romanov reign -- The evening glow -- The inverted pyramid -- Stalinism: high noon of system-centeredness -- After Stalin: the system yields to fatigue -- At the new crossroads.".
- catalog title "Drama rossiĭskoĭ politicheskoĭ istorii. English".
- catalog title "The drama of Russian political history : system against individual / Alexander Obolonsky ; foreword by Vincent Ostrom.".
- catalog type "text".