Book contents
- Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia
- Ideas in context
- Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Dates, Transliteration, and Other Conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Inside Out
- Chapter 2 Progress, Contested
- Chapter 3 Freedom, Differently
- Chapter 4 Liberalism Undone
- Chapter 5 Conversations with Western Ideas I
- Chapter 6 Conversations with Western Ideas II
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Ideas in Context
Chapter 1 - Inside Out
Freedom, Rights, and the Idea of Progress in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2020
- Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia
- Ideas in context
- Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Dates, Transliteration, and Other Conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Inside Out
- Chapter 2 Progress, Contested
- Chapter 3 Freedom, Differently
- Chapter 4 Liberalism Undone
- Chapter 5 Conversations with Western Ideas I
- Chapter 6 Conversations with Western Ideas II
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Ideas in Context
Summary
Chapter 1 deals with those pre-twentieth-century Russian thinkers who developed their views of personhood and of freedom in dialogue with Western philosophy, and articulated the broad framework for later liberalisms. With the exception of Boris Chicherin, the men discussed in this chapter did not self-identify readily as liberals, but their engagement with both the value of negative freedom enshrined in law, and the idea of a social, ethical project, provided a powerful legacy on which their successors drew. While the possibilities for political participation increased towards the end of the century, the engagement with liberalism during this period was largely an intellectual endeavour.
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- Liberal Ideas in Tsarist RussiaFrom Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution, pp. 38 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020