The power of language and rhetoric in Russian political history : charismatic words from the 18th to the 21st centuries /: charismatic words from the 18th to the 21st centuries. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard S. Wortman.
• Authors: Wortman, Richard
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Kul'turnost' and the Rhetoric of Proper Conduct; Kul'turnost'; Words of Behest, Words of Edification: Eighteenth-Century Cultural Policies; 2 The Rhetoric of Consent: Radost', Liubov', Umilenie and Vostorg; Baroque Demonstrations of Consent; The Allure of Sentiment: Alexander I; Vostorg and Umilenie; Alexander II: Terms of Reciprocity; The Millennium of Rus: The Apogee of Sentiment; 3 Lichnost' and the Rhetoric of Duty: The Ethos of Service; Nicholas Karamzin and Ethical Dualism The Loss of BearingsThe Birth of the Intelligentsia: The Discovery of Lichnost'; Hegel and the Destiny of the Individual; 4 Lichnost' and the Rhetoric of Duty: In Quest of New Ideals; The Scientific Turn; The "Subjective Sociologists" and the Primacy of Lichnost'; The Critique of Lichnost'; The Aftermath of Revolution and the New Meanings of Lichnost'; Later Developments; 5 Pravda and the Rhetoric of Moral Transcendence; Pravda and Zakon; Tolstoy, Dostoevskii, Soloviev, and Pravda; Philosophical Awakening: The Critique of Pravda; Lenin and Pravda 6 Tselost' (Geographical Integrity) in the Rhetoric of the Russian State*Postscript: A Brief Exchange with the Editors of Ab Imperio; Notes; Preface; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Bibliography; Contemporary Periodicals; Index
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (pages)
• Subjects: 320.94701/4; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Language and history; Historiography; Language and history; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; History of ideas; History -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History -- Modern -- General; Political Science -- History & Theory; European history; Russia -- History -- 1613-1917 -- Historiography; Soviet Union -- Historiography; Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991- -- Historiography; Russia; Russia (Federation); Soviet Union; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350040670; 1350040673
• Related ISBNs: 9781350040663; 1350040665
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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