| Titre | Un empire comme les autres ? | |
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| Auteur | Marc Raeff | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 30, no 3-4, juillet-décembre 1989 Hommage à Alexandre Bennigsen | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 321-327 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Marc Raeff, An empire like any other?
Neither the people nor the elites were conscious of the imperial character of old regime Russia. Two lines of explanation may be offered for this state of affairs: in the first place, Moscow's expansion to the East facilitated the integration of the native elites into the social and political leadership groups of the Russian empire; while the conquest of a "cultural parapet" in the West enabled the creation of modern. Westernized, Russian culture thanks to the contributions made by the europeanized elites of the conquered territories. In the second place, the "civil society of the educated" and the ideologized intelligentsia that emerged in the course of the nineteenth century in opposition to the State, totally rejected all aspects of the imperial regime without giving any thought to the ethnic and cultural diversity of the population. We may wonder whether history will repeat itself, for the bolshevik regime has neither eliminated Russia's imperial(ist) character nor paved the way to a better understanding of its political problems. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1989_num_30_3_2196 |
