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The Russian Tragedy
The Burden of History
Hugh Ragsdale
With a foreword by Robert C. Tucker
M.E. Sharpe Armonk, New York London, England
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Copyright 1996 by M. E. Sharpe, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ragsdale, Hugh. The Russian tragedy: the burden of history / by Hugh Ragsdale. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56324-755-0 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 1-56324-756-9 (paperback : alk. paper) 1. RussiaHistory. 2. Soviet UnionHistory. 1. Title. DK40.R34 1996 947.084dc20 95-39310 CIP
Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z 39.48-1984.
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To Martha
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Robert C. Tucker
ix
Preface
xiii
Chronology
xvii
Part I: The Historical Ingredients
1. Origins: Russia and the Russian Political Style
3
2. Politics and Religion: The Divorce of State and Society
29
3. Reason and Progress: Peter and Catherine
49
4. Reaction and Revolt: The Imperial Dead End
73
5. Culture, Character, Psyche: A Literary Excursion
108
Part II: The Revolutionary Experience
6. Reform or Revolution, 1900-1917
153
7. The Awkward World of Leninism, 1917-1928
180
8. The Brave New World of Stalinism, 1928-1953
207
9. Reform or RevolutionAgain, 1953-1991
240
Conclusion: A Cautious Prognosis
266
Notes
277
Index
295
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FOREWORD
Not many scholars have had the temerity to recount the thousand-year history of Russia on the modest scale of this volume. Just that has been done by Hugh Ragsdale in the pages that follow. He has, moreover, included an overview of the entire Soviet period of Russia's history, from the revolutions of 1917 to the abolition of the Soviet Union as a state formation in 1991, along with a short epilogue on Russia under Boris Yeltsin in the post-Soviet years down to 1995.
His book is notable for its pithy account of key events in Russia's history and vivid portrayals of outstanding Russian rulers such as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great in the eighteenth century as well as Tsar Alexander I in the early nineteenth and Tsar-Reformer Alexander II, under whom Russia's peasants were emancipated from serfdom by royal decree in 1861. At the same time, the narrative of events is placed within the framework of an interpretive approach that is set forth at the very outset, where we read: "The story of Russia is above all the story of the state."
In stressing the role of the state authority as the driving force of Russian history, Professor Ragsdale draws on the authority of the "political-juridical" school of Russian historiography, which developed initially in the nineteenth century. How and why it was that the state played so crucial a part in that country's history, both under the tsars and again under Soviet rulers in our century, will become plain to the reader. At the same time, the reader will note the paradoxical fact that, more than once in its history, the seemingly all-powerful Russian state structure has crumbled and collapsed. This first happened following the end of a ruling dynasty in 1598, and the ensuing fifteen years of semi-stateless chaos went down in Russian history as the "Time of Troubles." In reading the epilogue to this book, which refers to the "contemporary political chaos" in the post-Soviet Russian 1990s, the reader will understand why many Russians of our day speak of the present period as a new Time of Troubles.
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