Russia in World History

A Transnational Approach

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvChoi Chatterjee,USA) Chatterjee, Professor Choi (California State University, Los Angeles

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Russia in World History uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. The book challenges the idea of Russia as an outlier of European civilization by examining select themes in modern Russian history alongside cases drawn from the British Empire.Choi Chatterjee analyzes the concepts of nation and empire, selfhood and subjectivity, socialism and capitalism, and revolution and the world order in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. In doing so she rethinks many historical narratives that bluntly posit a liberal West against a repressive, authoritarian Russia. Instead Chatterjee argues for a wider perspective which reveals that imperial practices relating to the appropriation of human and natural resources were shared across European empires, both East and West.Incorporating the stories of famous thinkers, such as Leo Tolstoy, Emma Goldman, Wangari Maathai, Arundhati Roy, among others. This unique interpretation of modern Russia is knitted together from the varied lives and experiences of those individuals who challenged the status quo and promoted a different way of thinking. This is a ground-breaking book with big and provocative ideas about the history of the modern world, and will be vital reading for students of both modern Russian and world history.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-02-24
Mått154 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt360 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350026414

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Choi Chatterjee is Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of Celebrating Women: Gender, Festival Culture and Bolshevik Ideology, 1910-1939 (2002) and the co-author of Russia in the Long Twentieth Century (2016) and The Twentieth Century: A Retrospective (2002). She is also the co-editor of Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present (2015), The Russian Experience: Americans Encountering the Enigma, 1890 to the Present (2012), and The Wider Arc of Revolution (2019). Chatterjee, a passionate advocate of everyday environmentalism, is the co-creator of the project, https://www.livingbackyardtotable.com/.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Tolstoy and Tagore: Principles of Global Thinking2. Imperial Incarcerations: Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar3. The Empire Vanishes as the Nation Remains: Vasily Klyuchevsky and the G. M. Trevelyan4. Alone and Against Systems Thinking: Emma Goldman and M. N. Roy 5. Capitalism and socialism on the farm: Mukhamet Shayakhmetov and Wangari Maathai6. The Cold War Retold: Zainab Al-Ghazali and Urszula Dudziak7. Whom Does a Woman Speak For in a Post-World? Anna Politkovskaya and Arundhati Roy. Interview with Lisa Kirschenbaum.ConclusionSelect BibliographyIndex

This book is hugely ambitious. Chatterjee manages to pull off this remarkable intellectual experiment (and the book is novel enough to be called so) with remarkable lucidity. The book is a masterclass in identifying the base elements of thinking about the big questions - nationalism, ethnicity, race relations, class – as they relate to different countries – continents, even – and distilling these intellectual concerns and concepts down to their shared essence.