Public Empire (eBook)

Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia

Ekaterina Pravilova (Autor)

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2014
448 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5026-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Ekaterina Pravilova is associate professor of history at Princeton University.

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"e;Property rights"e; and "e;Russia"e; 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 "e;public things"e; 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 "e;the public"e; through the reform of property rights.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments vii: Abbreviations xi: Introduction: Res Publica in the Imperial State 1PART I: Whose Nature? Environmentalism, Industrialization, and the Politics of Property 191.: The Meanings of Property 212.: Forests, Minerals, and the Controversy over Property in Post-Emancipation Russia 553.: Nationalizing Rivers, Expropriating Lands 93PART II: The Treasures of the Fatherland 1294.: Inventing National Patrimony 1315.: Private Possessions and National Art 178PART III: "Estates on Parnassus": Literary Property and Cultural Reform 2136.: Writers and the Audience: Legal Provisions and Public Discourse 2157.: The Private Letters of National Literature 241Epilogue 270: Notes 291: Index 403:

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.4.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 13 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
• Schlagworte: absolute private domain • Accounting • agrarian reform • Agriculture • Ancien Régime • Andronikov Monastery • Appropriation • arable land • archaeology • Assignment (law) • attempt • author • authorial rights • Authors • autocracy • Backwardness • beneficiary • Bolshevik • bolsheviks • Bureaucracy • bureaucrat • Capability • Catherine the Great • Censorship • Censure • Centrality • Churches • Civil Code • Civil Society • Classical Liberalism • Clergy • coal • Collectivism • Colonialism • Common ownership • Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage • Copyright • Criticism • cultural reform • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen • deforestation • deprivatization • Divine Service (Lutheran) • Dominium • Economic ideology • Economics • economy • Edition (book) • Emancipation • Émile Durkheim • Eminent domain • Empirical Evidence • Employment • Engineering • E. P. Thompson • Ernest Renan • Eurasian (mixed ancestry) • European lawyer • exploration • Expropriation • Finance • Flurry (company) • Forest management • forest preservation • forest protection • forestry • Forestry law • Governance • greatness • hierarchy of values • Historiography • hydropower • Icon • Iconography • Ideology • Illustration • Immovable property • imperialism • imperial state • Individualism • indulgence • industrialisation • Institution • Intellectual Capital • Intelligentsia • Intention (criminal law) • Invention • Irony • Karl Mannheim • Konstantin Somov • Land Tenure • lawyer • Legislation • Leo Tolstoy • Liberalism • Literary criticism • Literary estate • Literature • Metaphor • Michael Freeden • Michel Foucault • Mineral Resources • Mining • Monopolization • Museum • Nationalization • national patrimony • natural resource • Necessity • Neoclassicism • newspaper • Nobility • obstacle • of education • Other Losses • Ownership • Ownership (psychology) • Pamphlet • pasture • patrimonial relations • peasant • Peasants • personal rights • Peter principle • police authority • Political Economy • Political System • Politician • Politics • preservationist • Previous question • privacy • private interests • Private Life • Private Property • Privatization • proclamation • property • Property Law • property reform • property rights • Property rights (economics) • protectionism • Publication • Public Domain • Public Interest • public property • Public sphere • public status • public utility • Public Value • Publishing • Rationalization (sociology) • Reformism • Regulation • Religious Architecture • Religious Art • religious icons • renewable resource • Requirement • residence • res publica • Revolution • rhetoric • Richard Pipes • right to property • rivers • Rule of Law • Ruler • Russia • Russian • Russian art • Russian culture • Russian Empire • Russian icons • Russian Literature • Russian monarchy • Russian property • Russian rulers • Russian state • salary • Scientist • serfdom • Smolensk • social development • Socialism • Social Isolation • Social Status • Sociocultural evolution • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • Stalinism • State Ownership • state possessions • state reform • Stroganov family • Suggestion • synod • Tax • technocracy • Textbook • Theft • The Great Transformation (book) • The Monastery (TV series) • The Public Interest • The Right to Privacy (article) • Total War • Vassal • Vegetable • Wealth • World War I • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5026-6 / 1400850266
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5026-6 / 9781400850266