In search of the true West : culture, economics, and problems of Russian development / Esther Kingston-Mann.

This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups that e...

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Main Author: Kingston-Mann, Esther
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.
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