TY - JOUR
AU - Riasanovsky, Nicholas V.
AB - 66 Reviews of Books graded local administration and the newly dayev," and Chaadayev "Revolutionary or Re· founded societal agencies" were never made former?" There is a concluding "Final Evalua­ clear. Balancing this negative feature the au­ tion," and the text is followed by a very rich thor acknowledges that "the Russian state un­ and valuable section of over seventy pages de· derwent a major constitutional crisis without voted to source materials and bibliography, bloodshed or the use of major force," thus and by an index. F. A. Moller's famous oil demonstrating "a greater vitality than might painting of Chaadayev gazes at the entire en­ generally be ascribed to it" (pp. 290--91). But terprise. the absence of trained personnel, the growing Professor McNally's book is based on the lat­ fears over internal security, and the re-emer­ est research and information, found also in gence of Russia on the international scene as a part in his articles. It is to McNally that we major power led to measures that crippled owe a better understanding of the evolution of both self-government and decentralized admin­ Chaadayev's thought on Peter the Great or of istration. In their place re-emerged the old the extent and 
TI - Raymond T. Mcnally. Chaadayev and His Friends: An Intellectual History of Peter Chaadayev and His Russian Contemporaries. Tallahassee, Fla.: Diplomatic Press. 1971. Pp. 315. $15.00
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/78.2.466
DA - 1973-04-01
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SP - 466
EP - 466
VL - 78
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -