An Intellectual Biography of N. A. Rozhkov: Life in a Bell Jar (Russian History and Culture) (Russian History and Culture, 16) (English and Russian Edition)

John Gonzalez

ISBN 10: 9004328505 / ISBN 13: 9789004328501

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2016

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Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xv, 379 p., map, 24 cm. "Nikolai Aleksandrovich Rozhkov (1868-1927) was a wellknown and influential Russian historian and political activist. He was held in great respect by his teachers, colleagues and students and was regarded by some as the most gifted disciple of Kliuchevskii, the greatest of all Russian historians. Kliuchevskii held Rozhkov in higher esteem than he did Mikhail Nikolaevich Pokrovskii, who eventually became the leading historian of the early Soviet period. Despite such accolades, no major work has been written on Rozhkov either in the Soviet Union or in the West. An assessment of his historical writings and of his political activities is long overdue. This thesis aims at addressing the first of these two areas. It investigates Rozhkov's understanding of history and his interpretation of early Russian history. The thesis also sheds light on Rozhkov's political ideas. It argues that Rozhkov's historical views led him to adopt a Menshevik position after 1907. For Rozhkov, the political ideas of Menshevism were consistent with the mechanical determinism of his theory of historical development. The thesis therefore offers an explanation of his political career as well as assessing his historical ideas.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Intellectual Biography of N. A. Rozhkov: Life in a Bell Jar (Russian History and Culture) (Russian History and Culture, 16) (English and Russian Edition)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004328505
• ISBN 13: 9789004328501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 24 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Russian History

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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.