An Intellectual Biography of N.A. Rozhkov : Life in a Bell Jar

John A González

ISBN 10: 9004328505 / ISBN 13: 9789004328501

Published by Brill Sep 2016, 2016

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Neuware - John A. González, Director of the Rozhkov Historical Research Centre, examines the evolution of the thought of the most important and prolific historian after V.O. Kliuchevskii. Rozhkov's transformation from liberal thinker to social democrat is explored against the background of Russia's paradigmatic shift from tsarist regime to revolutionary government.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Intellectual Biography of N.A. Rozhkov : Life in a Bell Jar
• Publisher: Brill Sep 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004328505
• ISBN 13: 9789004328501
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 155H x 25D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 680 grams

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Synopsis

An Intellectual Biography of N.A. Rozhkov is the first English language study to follow Russia's most gifted and important historian to emerge from the school of V.O. Kliuchevskii through the transformative decades that bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rozhkov's early philosophical influences are examined to explain his radicalisation from middle-class intellectual academic to Leninist-Bolshevik to Menshevik social-democrat. His Marxist-socialist beliefs landed him in gaol several times and eventually he was exiled to Siberia for a decade where he was able to refine his political worldview and develop his theory of historical development. Critical of Lenin and the 1917 revolution, he spent the last decade of his life being persecuted by the Bolshevik regime.

About the Author

Dr John González is an independent scholar and Director of the Rozhkov Historical Research Centre in New South Wales, Australia. In 2011 he became a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University's History and Politics series. Previously he has taught history and politics at the University of Wollongong and has taught languages for the New South Wales Department of Education and Training. He has published many articles on various aspects of Russian history, translated a wealth of material from Russian and other languages and is currently preparing for publication English translations of several of Rozhkov's books. This is his first monograph.