The price of utopia. The history of Russian modernization
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Why did all attempts to modernize and liberalize Russia over the past 160 years ended in failure? This key for our history is raised in his book by Mikhail Davydov. To try to answer it, the author offers to turn to the second half of the 19th century - the time when, according to him, Russia tried to realize the first anti -capitalist utopia in its history. The power and part of the society agreed that in the industrial era you can be a "original" great power, that is, to influence the fate of the world, fundamentally rejecting everything, due to which competitors and opponents achieved prosperity, and first of all, a generally legal system and the relevant rights of all layers of the population. As a result, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian Empire was the only world power that did without parliament and which the concept of a rule of law did not apply to. What socio-economic processes helped to form this utopia? How did Witte and Stolypin modernize the country and why, according to the author, did it happen contrary to the active opposition of the elites? And most importantly: how did this utopia predetermined the fate of the country for many years to come? Mikhail Davydov - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the School of Historical Sciences of the Higher School of Economics, Specialist in the History of Russia of the late XIX - early XX centuries
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Author:Давыдов Михаил
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Cover:Hard
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- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Culture
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ISBN:978-5-4448-1838-1
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