In search of the true west. Culture, economics, and problems of russian development
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- Tipo Tapa blanda
- Editorial PRINCETON
- Autor/es Kingston-Mann, Esther
- ISBN13 9780691004334
- ISBN10 0691004331
- Páginas 301
- Año de Edición 1998
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Historia EconomicaIn search of the true west. Culture, economics, and problems of russian development
This is the first historical account of the significant role played by Russian social scientists in nineteenth-century Western economic and social thought. In an era of rapid Western colonial expansion, the Russian quest for the "right" Western economic model became more urgent: Was Russia condemned to the fate of India if it did not become an England? In the 1900s, Russian liberal economists emphasized cultural difference and historical context, while Marxists and prerevolutionary government reformers declared that inexorable economic laws doomed peasants and their "medieval" communities. On the eve of 1917, both the tsarist regime and its leading critics agreed that Russia must choose between Western-style progress or "feudal" stagnation. And when peasants and communes survived until Stalin's time, he mercilessly destroyed them in the name of progress. Today Russia's painful modernizing traditions shape the policies of contemporary reformers, who seem as certain as their predecessors that economic progress requires wholesale obliteration of the past.
- Tipo Tapa blanda
- Editorial PRINCETON
- Autor/es Kingston-Mann, Esther
- ISBN13 9780691004334
- ISBN10 0691004331
- Páginas 301
- Año de Edición 1998
Secciones
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