The Cultural Gradient The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789D1991

by Evtuhov, Catherine; Kotkin, Stephen; Dickey, Lawrence; Catherine Evtuhov, Andrzej Walicki; Pirumova, Natalia; Emmons, Terence; Rosenthal, Bernice; Ruud, Charles; Kaczynska, Elzbieta; Young, Glennys; Pereira, Norman; Matlock, Jack; Touraine, Alain; Michnik

• ISBN13: 9780742520639
• ISBN10: 0742520633
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Is there a sharp dividing line that separates Europe into East and West? This volume brings together prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, France, Poland, and Russia to examine the evolution of the concept of Europe in the two centuries between the French Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Inspired by the ideas of Martin Malia, the contributors take a flexible view of the cultural gradient the emergence, interaction, and reception of ideas across Europe. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
Catherine Evtuhov
I. HISTORY OF IDEAS
Translatio Imperii and Translatio Religionis: The ``Geography of Salvation'' in Russian and American Messianic Thinking	13	(20)
Laurence Dickey
The Religious Westernism of Ivan Gagarin	33	(22)
Andrzej Walicki
Guizot in Russia	55	(18)
Catherine Evtuhov
Alexander Herzen's ``Russian Socialism''	73	(22)
Natalia Pirumova
The Problem of ``Russia and the West'' in Russian Historiography (with special reference to M. I. Rostovtsev and P. N. Miliukov)	95	(14)
Terence Emmons
William James through a Russian Prism: The Case of the Moscow God-Seekers	109	(22)
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
II. REGIMES AND POLITICAL PRACTICE
Crosscurrents of French, Austrian, and Russian Security Policing, 1750--1900	131	(14)
Charles A. Ruud
Poland between East and West: Law, Order, and Political Policing in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815--1914	145	(22)
Elzbieta Kaczynska
Terror in Pravda, 1917--1939: All the News That Was Fit to Print	167	(20)
Glennys Young
Modern Times: The Soviet Union and the Interwar Conjuncture	187	(22)
Stephen Kotkin
Persistence of the Ethic of Soviet Socialism in Late Twentieth-Century Russia	209	(20)
N. G. O. Pereira
III. THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE: POLITICS AND INTELLECTUALS
Russia, Europe, and ``Western Civilization''	229	(14)
Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
A Critique of the Concept of Globalization	243	(14)
Alain Touraine
Scenes from the Polish Hell	257	(20)
Adam Michnik
Poland, Europe, and Russia	277	(6)
Jacques Le Goff
Foxes into Hedgehogs: Berlin and Tolstoy	283	(12)
Hugh McLean
Martin Malia and the Understanding of Russia	295	(16)
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
Index	311	(10)
About the Contributors	321