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Alfred J. Rieber. Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. xxvi, 464 pp. $35.00.

Alfred J. Rieber. Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia. Chapel Hill: University of... Dr. Huussen's contemporary concern, made totally explicit only in his very last re- marks, is central government incursion upon university autonomy in the Netherlands, a development which threatens to make the universities mere extensions o f the Hague bu- reaucracy. No doubt his previous scholarly work, which includes separate studies on cen- tral bureaucracies and on the codifications o f Dutch and French law at the turn of the eighteenth century, enabled him to take a long, p r o f o u n d - a n d pessimistic-view o f a corrosive process at work all over the Western world. And if the underlying issue is omnivorous, engulfing bureaucracy, where should we turn but to the Soviet Union for a model, and what better topic than the histroical roots of the Nomenklatura? So we are brought to the heart of the essay, to Russia in the eras of Catherine and Alexander, a Russia beyond the limits of the Enlightenment, where central bureaucratic power, functioning in a Kafkaesque world o f unknowable law, made the operation o f enlightened principles impossible. Catherine's and Alexander's modern notions shimmered in the air, nothing but fancies or phantasmagoria-the grillen of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Alfred J. Rieber. Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. xxvi, 464 pp. $35.00.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 18 (2): 191 – Jan 1, 1984

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Brill
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© 1984 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0090-8290
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2210-2396
DOI
10.1163/221023984X00856
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Abstract

Dr. Huussen's contemporary concern, made totally explicit only in his very last re- marks, is central government incursion upon university autonomy in the Netherlands, a development which threatens to make the universities mere extensions o f the Hague bu- reaucracy. No doubt his previous scholarly work, which includes separate studies on cen- tral bureaucracies and on the codifications o f Dutch and French law at the turn of the eighteenth century, enabled him to take a long, p r o f o u n d - a n d pessimistic-view o f a corrosive process at work all over the Western world. And if the underlying issue is omnivorous, engulfing bureaucracy, where should we turn but to the Soviet Union for a model, and what better topic than the histroical roots of the Nomenklatura? So we are brought to the heart of the essay, to Russia in the eras of Catherine and Alexander, a Russia beyond the limits of the Enlightenment, where central bureaucratic power, functioning in a Kafkaesque world o f unknowable law, made the operation o f enlightened principles impossible. Catherine's and Alexander's modern notions shimmered in the air, nothing but fancies or phantasmagoria-the grillen of

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Published: Jan 1, 1984

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