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The drama of Russian political history : system against individual / Alexander Obolonsky ; foreword by Vincent Ostrom.

Author/creator Obolonskiĭ, A. V. (Aleksandr Valentinovich)
Other author/creatorOstrom, Vincent, 1919-2012.
Format Book and Print
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoCollege Station : Texas A&M University Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxxiv, 271 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Uniform titleDrama rossiĭskoĭ politicheskoĭ istorii. English
Series Eastern European studies ; no. 19
Eastern European studies (College Station, Tex.) ; no. 19. ^A377630
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-268) and index.
LCCN 2002012708
ISBN1585442240 (cloth : alk. paper)

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