Industrialization as a Precipitant of Tensions Between Tsardom and Nascent Civil Society

Sylvia Sztern ()
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Sylvia Sztern: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Chapter Chapter 4 in Russia on the Move, 2022, pp 127-146 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Russia in 1861–1906 was burdened with the costs of its own dictatorship, originating in hierarchies of coercion that came about when the state stepped in as a substitute for individual entrepreneurship in its eagerness to industrialize under conditions of backwardness. The legitimacy of my challenge to Gerschenkron’s distinction in this matter is found in the institutional emergence of elites in the Decembrist revolt of 1825, fueled by the egalitarian ideas of the French Revolution, and from Napoleon’s invasion (1812) to the emancipation of the peasantry four decades later and beyond. Moreover, the pious challenge to autocracy had been embedded in the seventeenth-century dissent of the Old Believers and the Masonic lodges that Catherine II persecuted (Chap. 1 ). To view Tsarist Russia as legitimized by a consensus among the pious concerning the legitimacy of hereditary rule, an in-depth explanation is needed and will be found here.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89285-2_4

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