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Author David-Fox, Michael, 1965- author.

Title Crossing borders : modernity, ideology, and culture in Russia and the Soviet Union / Michael David-Fox.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages).
Series Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Series in Russian and East European studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-271) and index.
Contents Introduction: Threading the Needle : The Soviet Order between Exceptionalism and Shared Modernity -- Part I. Russian and Soviet Modernity -- Multiple Modernities vs. Neo-Traditionalism : On Ongoing Debates in Russian and Soviet History -- The Intelligentsia, the Masses, and the West : Particularities of Russian-Soviet Modernity -- Part II. Ideology, Concepts, and Institutions -- The Blind Men and the Elephant : Six Faces of Ideology in the Soviet Context -- What Is Cultural Revolution? : Key Concepts and the Arc of Soviet Cultural Transformation, 1910s-1930s -- Symbiosis to Synthesis : The Communist Academy and the Bolshevization of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1918-1929 -- Part III. Mediators and Travelers -- Understanding and Loving the New Russia : Mariia Kudasheva as Romain Rolland's Cultural Mediator -- A "Prussian Bolshevik" in Stalin's Russia : Ernst Niekisch at the Crossroads between Communism and National Socialism.
Summary "Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of modernity, ideology, and cultural transformation, he challenges the polarizing camps of Soviet exceptionalism and shared modernity and instead strives for a theoretical and empirical middle ground as the basis for a creative and richly textured analysis. Discussions of Soviet modernity have tended to see the Soviet state either as an archaic holdover from the Russian past, or as merely another form of conventional modernity. David-Fox instead considers the Soviet Union in its own light--as a seismic shift from tsarist society that attracted influential visitors from the pacifist Left to the fascist Right. By reassembling Russian legacies, as he shows, the Soviet system evolved into a complex 'intelligentsia-statist' form that introduced an array of novel agendas and practices, many embodied in the unique structures of the party-state. Crossing Borders demonstrates the need for a new interpretation of the Russian-Soviet historical trajectory--one that strikes a balance between the particular and the universal"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Soviet Union -- Politics and government.
Soviet Union -- Foreign public opinion.
Soviet Union -- Civilization.
Russia -- History -- Philosophy.
Soviet Union -- History -- Philosophy.
Visitors, Foreign -- Soviet Union -- History.
Transnationalism -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Ideology -- Soviet Union -- History.
Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History.
Social change -- Soviet Union -- History.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY -- General.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
Ideology. (OCoLC)fst00966915
Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
Political culture. (OCoLC)fst01069263
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01082785
Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
Visitors, Foreign. (OCoLC)fst01167960
Russia. (OCoLC)fst01207312
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: David-Fox, Michael, 1965- Crossing borders. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015] 9780822963677 (DLC) 2015004307 (OCoLC)898158788
ISBN 9780822980926 (electronic bk.)
0822980924 (electronic bk.)
9780822963677 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
0822963671
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