Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. A Note on Transliteration and Dates xii
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. INTRODUCTION The Discipline and I 1
7. PART ONE The Fate of Ideas in History
8. CHAPTER 1 Alexander Herzen and Isaiah Berlin on Russia’s Elusive Counter-Enlightenment 21
9. CHAPTER 2 Russian and Western European Roots of Soviet Totalitarianism 42
10. CHAPTER 3 Traditions, Old and New: Aspects of Protest and Dissent in Modern Russia 55
11. PART TWO Social Groups in Comparative Perspective
12. CHAPTER 4 On Intellectuals and Intellectual Traditions in Eighteenthand Nineteenth-Century Russia 81
13. CHAPTER 5 The Nobility in Russia and Western Europe: Contrasts and Similarities 119
14. CHAPTER 6 Comparing Russian Serfdom and American Slavery 141
15. CHAPTER 7 Agrarian Crisis, Urbanization, and the Russian Peasants at the End of the Old Regime, 1880s–1920s 161
16. PART THREE Approaches to the History of Russia
17. CHAPTER 8 Reinventing the Enlightenment: Western Images of Eastern Realities in the Eighteenth Century 185
18. CHAPTER 9 Political Murder in Russian Culture: Comparisons and Counterfactuals 206
19. CHAPTER 10 Current Events and the Representation of the Past: Issues in Russian Historical Writing 235
20. Afterword 272
21. Selected Bibliography 277
22. Index 288