Dimensions and Challenges of Russian Liberalism Historical Drama and New Prospects /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cucciolla, Riccardo Mario (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations, 8
• Θέματα: Political philosophy.; Political theory.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Russia-Politics and government.; Democracy.; Political Philosophy.; Political Theory.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.

Liberalism in Russia is one of the most complex, multifaced and, indeed, controversial phenomena in the history of political thought. Values and practices traditionally associated with Western liberalism-such as individual freedom, property rights, or the rule of law-have often emerged ambiguously i...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface and Acknowledgements; Giancarlo Bosetti
• Who we are
• Credits
• About the Authors
• Introduction: The many dimensions of Russian liberalism; Riccardo Mario Cucciolla
• Part 1: Pre-revolutionary Liberalism and the Challenges of Modernity
• I. The Political Philosophy of Russian Liberalism; Alexey Kara-Murza and Olga Zhukova
• II. Russian Liberalism and the Rule of Law: Notes from Underground; Gianmaria Ajani
• III. Wither Russian Liberalism?; Alexander Semyonov
• Part 2: Liberal Undercurrents in Soviet Times
• IV. Intelligentsia as a liberal concept in Soviet history, 1945-1991; Vladislav Zubok
• V. Human Rights Defenders within Soviet Politics; Benjamin Nathans
• VI. Gorbachev's "New Thinking": A Proto-liberal Program for the Soviet Union; Svetlana Savranskaya
• VII. Autocratic Ideology as an Obstacle to Liberal Democratic Thought in Post-Soviet Russia; Mark Kramer
• Part 3: The "Time of Troubles"
• VIII. Paradoxes and By-Products of Liberal Reforms in Russia; Victor Sheynis
• IX. Ethical Liberal Values vs. the Soviet Political and Administrative Heritage from the 1980s to the Present; Alexander Obolonsky
• X. The Lessons from Perestroika and the Evolution of Russian Liberalism (1995-2005); Guillaume Sauvé
• Part 4: Liberalism under Pressure in contemporary Russia
• XI. Liberals or Technocrats? Liberal Ideas and Values in the Mindset of the Russian Political Elite; Valeriy Solovey
• XII. Why reforms of public service of Russia are cyclic: An institutional explanation from a liberal perspective; Alexey Barabashev and Vadim Prokofiev
• XIII. Liberalism and Federalism in Russian State-Building, 1992-2017; Ildar Zulkarnay
• XIV. The Illiberal World Order and Russian Liberals; Andrei Melville
• Index of Names.