Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution 1881–1917

Rogger, Hans

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“…A caustic amalgamation of popular and state‐sponsored violence contributed to the exodus of two million Jews from the empire between 1881 and 1914. With Tsar Nicholas II's ascension to the throne in 1894, the precarious state of Russian Jewry took a turn for the worse (Rogger, 1983, p. 199). Anti‐Semitism only intensified in official circles, the press and public life.…”

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The global circulation of Marxist perspectives on the national question: Borochovism at the service of the Eritrean cause

Cohen

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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In 1979, a group of activists belonging to the EPLF (the Eritrean People's Liberation Front) came across a materialistic interpretation of the national question, which was penned at the turn of the century by one Dov Ber Borochov (1881-1917), a Russian-Jewish intellectual who was a leading ideologue of Marxist Zionism. Among the fruits of this encounter was a book advocating the Eritrean people's right to self-determination. Owing to developments in the Soviet Union and Marxist circles in the 1920s, Borochov's works were all but ignored throughout the remainder of the century. How, then, did a Spanish translation of his treatise, Nationalismo y lucha de clases (known in English as The National Question and Class Struggle), find its way into the hands of Eritrean nationalists? Furthermore, against the backdrop of Moscow and Havana's open support for Ethiopia, what attracted these Eritreans to the thought of an obscure Marxist-Zionist intellectual?

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Section: The Evolution Of Borochovian Thoughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

The global circulation of Marxist perspectives on the national question: Borochovism at the service of the Eritrean cause

Cohen

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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“…Under Prime Minister Sergei Witte, the Russian Empire relied on foreign investments to raise capital and offset budgetary deficits. 59 The deus ex machina of English 97 capital is moved offstage and rescues only one family. However, there is no rhyme or reason to why one family is spared and the other ruined.…”

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Almost Winning: Speculation, Temporality, and Casino Capitalism in Chekhov

Zhulina¹

2021

Modernism/modernity

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m o d e r n i t y 80 countrymen's obsession with forecasting the future. The resultant series of sixteen short articles, running from November 24 to December 10, 1884, detail the bank's various machinations, explain how it was possible for Rykov and his associates to continue their con for as long as they did, and comment on the theatricality of both the trial and financial speculation. These articles thus reveal Chekhov's burgeoning theatrical imagination and his profound interest in the theatricality of Imperial Russia's nascent capitalism. Various details from Skopin's scandal and Rykov's trial echo throughout Chekhov's oeuvre, revealing his interest in exploring the theater of capital and the pitfalls of prediction. In particular, the radical contingency and the potential-laden temporality of gambling provide a model for Chekhov's attention to the accidental detail and his interest in the dramatic potential of what we might call the near hit-an event that comes as close to happening as possible but fails to materialize in the last moment. This is not to argue that Chekhov's modernism merely illustrates the economic world in which he lived. Rather, Chekhov's form and style are, to borrow Terry Eagleton's turn of phrase, "products of a particular history." 2 Modernism, as John Xiros puts it, "is, and always has been, the culture of capitalism." 3 A lot of recent scholarship has shed light on the interpenetration of modernism and financial speculation, focusing on the fictitious nature of money, the volatility of value, and modernists' experiments with the manipulation of aesthetic and commercial values. 4 And yet, while critics have explored Chekhov's representation of the randomness of daily life, his attention to the seemingly insignificant detail, and his predilection for events that are expected but "cannot come to pass," there has been little attention paid to how these aleatory elements reflect the instability, unpredictability, and moral relativism of the modern economy. 5 As Laurence Senelick notes, "Chekhov's interest in money is so prominent in his life and works that it is surprising that no one has studied it in more detail." 6 Rejected as a bourgeois writer in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Chekhov was later rehabilitated by Soviet Marxists as a denigrator of capitalism. Since this Marxist-Leninist take on Chekhov's oeuvre was reinforced in the Eastern Bloc for so long, it is not surprising that contemporary critics have generally been reluctant to analyze money matters in Chekhov. 7 In the West, scholars have also been largely silent, taking their cue from Virginia Woolf, who contrasted Chekhov's supposed Slavic "soul" to the materialism of "Mr. Wells, Mr. Bennett, and Mr. Galsworthy." 8 In fact, Chekhov's aesthetic imagination was shaped by Russia's burgeoning capitalist economy with its focus on prediction, generating a literary and dramatic style that is characterized by random details and potential-laden events that either fail to materialize or take an unexpected turn. In his short stori...

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“…The fundamental works on the outlined topic belong to the following Ukrainian authors: A.I.Kozachenko 1 , T.O.Sharavara 2 , P.P.Panchenko, I.H.Kyrylenko, V.A.Verhunov 3 , V.M.Samorodov, S.L.Kyhym 4 , O.M.Krasnikova 5 , M.A.Yakymenko 6 and others. Foreign historians also contributed to the study of modernization processes in Russian Empire of the19 th -early 20 th centuries, among them H.Roger 7 , D.Atkinson 8 , W.Lincoln 9 and others. However, all the above-mentioned authors did not focus on the problems that were directly related to the research topic chosen by them.…”

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Agronomic Meetings as a Means of Modernization of Agriculture in Ukraine in the Early Twentieth Century (as Exemplified in Poltava Region)

Аранчій¹,

Yakymenko²,

Sharavara³

2020

UHJ

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The aim of the research is to determine the reasons, form, content and consequences of such a social phenomenon as agronomic meetings (the practice of which was quite common in the southwestern regions of the Russian Empire in the early 20th century, in particular in Poltava region) for the socio-economic development of the country. The research methodology is based on the principles of scientificity, historicism, authors' objectivity, regionalism, as well as the use of general scientific methods such as analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction and specific historical ones, namely, historicalgenetic, historical-comparative and historical-systemic methods. The scientific novelty of the research is characterized by the fact that on the basis of the analysis of little-known historical sources, the authors for the first time in national historiography have analyzed the publications of Poltava provincial zemstvo, as well as publications of local agricultural societies, including magazines "Khutorianyn" and "Bulletin of South Russian Animal Husbandry" in terms of the content and consequences of agronomic meetings set up by local public activists aimed at the modernization of agricultural production, which was particularly topical during the implementation of Stolypin's agrarian reform. The importance of the mentioned meetings was: to involve a wide range of people relating to the agrarian sector in the discussion, among them were not only practitioners, but also well-known theorists from university professors; to disseminate the ideas formulated during the relevant meetings in media, in the process of consultations provided by local agronomists, lectures and conversations with the illiterate population. Along with the analysis of the content of agronomic meetings, the authors paid attention to their socioeconomic reasons and consequences, which, above all, enables to understand this process in a holistic way, taking into account all the circumstances that directly or indirectly affected the meetings held by the local agricultural society and Poltava provincial zemstvo. Conclusions. As a result of the research, it was concluded that such a method of the modernization of crop production and animal husbandry as agronomic meetings with participation of not only public figures from among local agricultural societies and zemstvo figures, but also representatives of central authorities of Poltava province.

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Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution 1881–1917

Cited by 15 publications

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The global circulation of Marxist perspectives on the national question: Borochovism at the service of the Eritrean cause

The global circulation of Marxist perspectives on the national question: Borochovism at the service of the Eritrean cause

Almost Winning: Speculation, Temporality, and Casino Capitalism in Chekhov

Agronomic Meetings as a Means of Modernization of Agriculture in Ukraine in the Early Twentieth Century (as Exemplified in Poltava Region)

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