Liberal City, Conservative StateLiberal City, Conservative State
Moscow and Russia's Urban Crisis, 1906-1914
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Current format, Unknown, 1987, , All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsBetween 1906 and the outbreak of World War I, Moscow was the locale of great uncertainty and experimentation. Moscow's liberal leaders sought social and political stability for their city following the violence of the 1905 revolution by offering attractive programs in education, employment,housing and other areas to Moscow's unruly lower classes. They were countered in their efforts, however, by central authorities of the Old Regime, who feared the political effects of these programs and stressed social rigidity. Liberal City, Conservative State examines the resulting clash betweenthe city and the state as it brought to the surface and exacerbated the deep tensions plaguing Russia by the eve of World War I. It focuses on the roots of this dispute, juxtaposing the Old Regime's rural background and orientation with the urban concerns of Moscow's liberals, and sees the state'sessential failure in its inability to come to terms with the realities of urban life and growth. Providing new perspectives and insights into Russian liberalism, the scope and urgency of urban problems, and the importance of tsarist ideology in conditioning development after 1905, Moscow's storysheds light on the unsolved dilemmas and contradictions that pushed Russia inexorably toward revolution.
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
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