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THE VOCABULARY OF RUSSIAN HISTORICISM

THE VOCABULARY OF RUSSIAN HISTORICISM NOTE THE VOCABULARY OF RUSSIAN HISTORICISM EDWARD THADEN "Marx," Vladimir ll'ich Lenin wrote in 1914, "drew attention and indi- cated the way to a scientific study o f history as a single process which, with all its i m m e n s e variety and contradictoriness, is governed by definite laws."1 I Actually, "scientific" history and notions o f natural historical d e v e l o p m e n t antedate Marx, having been anticipated by eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinkers and, during the first part o f the nineteenth century, applied with some success to the study o f history, law, and literature by G e r m a n and Russian romantic nationalists and philosophical idealists. In this paper, I will use the term historicism in discussing certain aspects o f the background for the ap- proach to history alluded to by Lenin. Begriffsgeschichte, which concerns itself with the changing conceptual vocabulary o f the historian, offers one fruitful approach to studying the ori- gins o f historicism in Russia and the considerable influence it has exercised on R u s s i a n a n d S o v i e t h http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

THE VOCABULARY OF RUSSIAN HISTORICISM

THADEN, EDWARD
Russian History , Volume 17 (3): 297 – Jan 1, 1990
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© 1990 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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NOTE THE VOCABULARY OF RUSSIAN HISTORICISM EDWARD THADEN "Marx," Vladimir ll'ich Lenin wrote in 1914, "drew attention and indi- cated the way to a scientific study o f history as a single process which, with all its i m m e n s e variety and contradictoriness, is governed by definite laws."1 I Actually, "scientific" history and notions o f natural historical d e v e l o p m e n t antedate Marx, having been anticipated by eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinkers and, during the first part o f the nineteenth century, applied with some success to the study o f history, law, and literature by G e r m a n and Russian romantic nationalists and philosophical idealists. In this paper, I will use the term historicism in discussing certain aspects o f the background for the ap- proach to history alluded to by Lenin. Begriffsgeschichte, which concerns itself with the changing conceptual vocabulary o f the historian, offers one fruitful approach to studying the ori- gins o f historicism in Russia and the considerable influence it has exercised on R u s s i a n a n d S o v i e t h

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Published: Jan 1, 1990

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