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Article: Pipes, Richard. Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- March 1, 2006
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PIPES, Richard. Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 240 pp. Cloth, $30.00--One does not normally study Russian history to understand Western identity, but given that any identity can often be described in the light of its opposite, this book may be useful in answering the timely question raised by Samuel P. Huntington in his book, Who are We? Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History Emeritus, Harvard University, presents this volume as an essay in intellectual history. "My notion of intellectual history," he writes, "is that it concerns itself with ideas which, however unrealistic, influence public ...