Ekaterina Pravilova A Public Empire (Hardback)
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Further Details Title: A Public Empire Condition: New EAN: 9780691159058 ISBN: 9780691159058 Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Hardback Release Date: 04/13/2014 Item Height: 235mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 482g Author: Ekaterina Pravilova Language: English Subtitle: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia ISBN-10: 069115905X Description: "Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the issues of ownership. A Public Empire refutes this widely shared conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. Most importantly, A Public Empire shows the emergence of the new practices of owning "public things" in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good. The book analyzes how the belief that certain objects--rivers, forests, minerals, historical monuments, icons, and Russian literary classics--should accede to some kind of public status developed in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century.Professional experts and liberal politicians advocated for a property reform that aimed at exempting public things from private ownership, while the tsars and the imperial government employed the rhetoric of protecting the sanctity of private property and resisted attempts at its limitation. Exploring the Russian ways of thinking about property, A Public Empire looks at problems of state reform and the formation of civil society, which, as the book argues, should be rethought as a process of constructing "the public" through the reform of property rights. Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: History Release Year: 2014 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
