Political cultures of advanced autocracy: Can the Russian historian speak?

Russian History

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 465-475

  Burbank, Jane ^a  

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EID: 63849322088     PISSN: 0094288X     EISSN: 18763316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187633104X00115     Document Type: Note

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1. Key books in the "discovery" of Russian civil society are Edith Samuel D. Kassow, and James L. West, eds., Between Tsar and People: Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1991); W.Clowes, Samuel D. Kassow, and James L. West, eds., Between Tsar and People: Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1991)
2. Harley D. Balzer, ed., Russia's Missing Middle Class: The Professions in Russian History (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996)
3. and Douglas, Smith, Working the Rough Stone: Freemasonry and Society in Russia Eighteenth-century Russia (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 1999)
4. Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere trans. Thomas Burger with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991). xviii
5. Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist's Mikhail Bakhtin (Cambridge, MA Bakhtin's work and life and was seminal in bringing him to the attention of historians of Russia Harvard Univ. Press, 1984) offers an outstanding analysis of Bakhtin's work and life and was seminal in bringing him to the attention of historians of Russia
6. The first edition appeared in 1955: Leonard Schapiro, The Origin of the Communist Autocracy: Political Opposition in the Soviet State, First Phase. 1917-1922 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press). Communist Autocracy: Political Opposition in the Soviet State, First Phase. 1917-1922 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press)
7. Oliver H. Radkey's books include The Unknown Civil War in Soviet Russia the Tambov Region, 1920-1921 A Study of the Green Movement in the Tambov Region, 1920-1921 (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford Univ., 1976)
8. The Agrarian Foes of Bolshevism (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1958)
9. and The Sickle under the Hammer: The Russian Socialist Revolutionaries in the Early Months of the Soviet Rule (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1963); the Early Months of the Soviet Rule (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1963)
10. see also Marc Jansen, A Show Trial under Lenin: The Trial of the Moscow, 1922 Socialist Revolutionaries, Moscow, 1922, translated from the Dutch by Jean Sanders (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1982)
11. among Paul Avrich's many books on Russian anarchists, see The Russian Anarchists (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1967) Anarchists (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1967)
12. and The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ Press 1973). Press 1973)
13. Moscow 1905: Working Class Organization and Political Conflict (Stanford neglect its unconventional conclusions CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1982). Melancon and Pate cite this work, but neglect its unconventional conclusions
14. Richard Pipes, Social Democracy and the St. Petersburg Labor Movement 1885-1897 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1963). This study is cited by Pate and Melancon, but they do not note that Pipes's major point concerned the strong differences between the aims of workers and Social Democratic activists (see esp. pp. 117-25). 1885-1897 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1963). This study is cited by Pate and Melancon, but they do not note that Pipes's major point concerned the strong differences between the aims of workers and Social Democratic activists (see esp. pp. 117-25)
15. This literature, much of it cited in Pate and Melancon's article, is enormous. Three works that specifically address the other Mensheviks are Abraham Ascheravel Axelrod and the Development of Menshevism Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1972 enormous. Three works that specifically address the "other" Mensheviks are Abraham Ascheravel Axelrod and the Development of Menshevism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1972)
16. Samuel H. Baronlekhanov: The Father of Russian Marxism (Stanford, CA Stanford Univ. Press, 1963
17. and Jane Burbank, Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism, 1917-1922 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986)p. 35-51
18. On intelligentsia self-fashioning, see Barbara Walker, "On Reading Institution of Russian Intelligentsia Culture from the 1790s to the 1970s Soviet Memoirs: A History of the 'Contemporaries' Genre as an Institution of Russian Intelligentsia Culture from the 1790s to the 1970s," The Russian Review 59 (July 2000), 327-52
19. Michael T. Florinsky, The End of the Russian Empire (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1931)
20. Richard Charques, The Twilight of Imperial Russia (New York: Oxford Univ Press, 1958)
21. See my now pre-revolutionary article, "Controversies over Stalinism for a Soviet Societyolitics and Society 19, no. 3 (1991), 325-40. Searching for a Soviet Society," Politics and Society 19, no. 3 (1991), 325-40
22. For a wonderful example of confusion about categories, see the subtitle A. Rubakin's Rossiia v tsfrakh published in 1912: Strana. Narod. Sosloviia. Klassy. Rubakin suggested that statistics were the best way to address these ambiguities (p. 4). of N. A. Rubakin's Rossiia v tsfrakh published in 1912: "Strana. Narod. Sosloviia. Klassy." Rubakin suggested that statistics were the best way to address these ambiguities (p. 4)
23. For a highly cautionary approach to categories and statistics, see Stanziani's studies, esp., Les statistiques des récoltes en Russie, 1905-1928, Histoire et Mesure 7, 1-2 (1992), 73-98 Alessandro Stanziani's studies, esp., "Les statistiques des récoltes en Russie, 1905-1928," Histoire et Mesure 7, 1-2 (1992), 73-98
24. and "Les sources démographiques entre contrôle policier utopies technocratiques: Le cas russe, 1870-1926, Cahiers du monde russe 38, no. 4 (octobre-décembre 1997), 457-88. et utopies technocratiques: Le cas russe, 1870-1926," Cahiers du monde russe 38, no. 4 (octobre- décembre 1997), 457-88
25. For these two contrasting approaches, see Leopold Haimson's articles Problem of Social Stability in Urban Russia, 1905-1917 (Part One), Slavic Review, 23, no. 4 (Dec. 1964), 619-42; "The Problem of Social Stability in Urban Russia, 1905-1917 (Part One)," Slavic Review, 23, no. 4 (Dec. 1964), 619-42
26. "The Problem of Social Stability in Urban Russia, 1905-1917 (Part Slavic Review, 24, no. 1 (March 1965), 1-22; Two," Slavic Review, 24, no. 1 (March 1965), 1-22
27. and "The Problem of Political and Social Stability in Urban Russia Eve of War and Revolution, Slavic Review, 59, no. 4 (Winter 2000), 848-75 on the Eve of War and Revolution," Slavic Review, 59, no. 4 (Winter 2000), 848-75
28. and Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter's monograph, Social Identity in Imperial Russia (DeKalb: Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 1997). Russia (DeKalb: Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 1997)