![]() | In Search of the True West: Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development Subjects: Rural development -- Russia; Economics -- Russia -- History; Russia -- Civilization -- Foreign influences; Russia -- Rural conditions; This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups that embodied universal economic truths applicable to their own country. Esther Kingston-Mann describes Russian Westernization--which emphasized German as well as Anglo-U.S. economics--while she raises important questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined. Esther Kingston-Mann is Ford Service Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution and coeditor and contributor to Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921 (Princeton). |
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