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1 In the last decade or so, the reign of Alexander II has corne under detailed study in ways which now promise a rich yield of informed interpretation and new perspectives. The interest in the period has stemmed not only, or even chiefly, from the centennial of emancipation observed in 1961, but from the widespread recognition that much of Russia's later development-economic, social, political and cultural- was sparked by actions taken and movements awakened in the later 1850's, the 1860's and the 1870's. The emphasis on institutional and social history is striking when one considers the long period in which scholarly inquiry has centered on intellectual phenomena. Quite apart from the unavailability of archives and the impingement of revolutionary ideology on historical scholarship, the new interest in tsarist institutions appears to be an inversion of older assumptions in which ideas were accorded central importance if not causal primacy in the movement of history. In the new order of inquiry, institutions, political behavior and social relationships now receive the attention which the sources clearly suggest they deserve. If one cites but a mere handful of Soviet publications of recent date, one notes their , convergence on an effort not
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1969
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