A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia
Ekaterina Pravilova
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Description for A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia
Hardback. "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. This book analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. Num Pages: 448 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 766.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691159058
SKU
V9780691159058
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About Ekaterina Pravilova
Ekaterina Pravilova is associate professor of history at Princeton University.
Reviews for A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia
Winner of the 2015 Historia Nova Prize, Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Academic Studies Press Winner of the George L. Mosse Prize 2015, American Historical Association Winner of the 2015 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies Honorable Mention for the 2015 J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association Longlisted for the 2015 ... Read more