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Article: Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- December 22, 2007
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Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture. By Richard Pipes. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 216. $30.00.)
This study of the Russian Revolution offers a valuable survey of five hundred years of Russian ideas about power and five hundred years of Russian hopes for authority, to 1917. This is not a book about preconditions and precursors; the author is always keen to emphasize "the autonomy of ideas" in human affairs and to dispel the shadow he thinks 1917 still casts over most studies of Russian intellectual history (xiv). Big thinkers' big ideas are Richard Pipes's subject matter. Although Pipes admires the greats ...