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The Russian populists were intellectuals who saw the hope for transformation of Russian society in an alliance between peasantry and intelligentsia. They endowed the peasant with their own socialist ideas and in his institutions they saw the embryo of a just future life. Professor Wortman sees populism not as a defined ideology but as a group of shared attitudes and preconceptions.
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The Russian populists were intellectuals who saw the hope for transformation of Russian society in an alliance between peasantry and intelligentsia. They endowed the peasant with their own socialist ideas and in his institutions, especially the rural commune, they saw the embryo of a just future life. Professor Wortman sees populism not as a defined ideology but as a group of shared attitudes and preconceptions. During the crisis of Russian populism, at the end of the 1870s and beginning of the 1880s, these attitudes and preconceptions were called into question when first hand reports came from the countryside of neglected fields, ignorance, poverty and exploitation of the poorer by the wealthier peasants. Professor Wortman focuses on the 'psychological dimension of populism' by tracing the personal evolution of three of the leading writers of the time before and during the period of crisis. In each case, he shows how a grave personal crisis resulted from the ideological crisis afflicting the movement and how the individual writer's personal experience was made meaningful for the group as a whole.
Table of Contents
Preface; 1. The City and the countryside; 2. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engel'gardt and the artificial reconciliation; 3. Gleb Ivanovich Uspenskii and the impossible reconciliation; 4. Nikolai Nikolaevich Zlatovratskii and the necessary reconciliation; 5. The intrusion of economics; 6. Theoretical reconciliation and spiritual dissolution; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Review
From the hardback review: 'wider-ranging and more stimulating than the average examination coursebook.' IATEFL Newsletter 1998
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From the hardback review: 'wider-ranging and more stimulating than the average examination coursebook.' IATEFL Newsletter 1998
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Professor Wortman sees populism not as a defined ideology but as a group of shared attitudes and preconceptions.
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The Russian populists were intellectuals who saw the hope for transformation of Russian society in an alliance between peasantry and intelligentsia. They endowed the peasant with their own socialist ideas and in his institutions they saw the embryo of a just future life. Professor Wortman sees populism not as a defined ideology but as a group of shared attitudes and preconceptions.
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The Russian populists were intellectuals who saw the hope for transformation of Russian society in an alliance between peasantry and intelligentsia. They endowed the peasant with their own socialist ideas and in his institutions they saw the embryo of a just future life. Professor Wortman sees populism not as a defined ideology but as a group of shared attitudes and preconceptions.
Details ISBN0521089700 Author Richard Wortman Short Title CRISIS OF RUSSIAN POPULISM Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 0521089700 ISBN-13 9780521089708 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Publication Date 2008-11-30 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 947.07 Pages 224 Birth 1943 Audience College/Higher Education UK Release Date 2008-11-06 AU Release Date 2008-11-06 NZ Release Date 2008-11-06 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises We've got this
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