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Chapter 1 - Inside Out

Freedom, Rights, and the Idea of Progress in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2020

Vanessa Rampton
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McGill University, Montréal
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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 Russia
From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution
, pp. 38 - 62
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Inside Out
  • Vanessa Rampton, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia
  • Online publication: 10 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108652353.002
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  • Inside Out
  • Vanessa Rampton, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia
  • Online publication: 10 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108652353.002
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  • Inside Out
  • Vanessa Rampton, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia
  • Online publication: 10 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108652353.002
Available formats
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