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  • Chapter 2 - Progress, Contested

  • Vanessa Rampton, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book:
    Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia
    Published online:
    10 February 2020
    Print publication:
    20 February 2020, pp 63-84

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 discusses the ways in which liberal ideas of Western origin shaped Russian political theory during the period roughly between 1895 and 1903. The pan-European reassessment of many fundamental positivist assumptions after about 1890 inspired the Russian Silver Age, and occasioned a debate between liberally inclined thinkers about the proper philosophical assumptions on which to base their views of selfhood, freedom, and history. Neo-idealist liberalism thus developed as part of the search for new forms of understanding to accompany the social and cultural transformations that Russia was undergoing. The chapter argues that both positivism and neo-idealism contained the philosophical resources to support a moderate, pluralist view of human values, but not all of their variants were liberal.

  • 12 - Russian liberalism and the philosophy of law

  • Edited by G. M. Hamburg, Claremont McKenna College, California, Randall A. Poole
  • Book:
    A History of Russian Philosophy 1830–1930
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    22 April 2010, pp 248-265

  • Summary

    This chapter talks about five thinkers who played a pivotal role in the development of Russian liberal thought after 1900. As public figures, Pavel Novgorodtsev, Pёtr Struve, Evgenii Trubetskoi, Bogdan Kistiakovskii, and Sergei Kotliarevskii, campaigned for a state under the rule of law, one based on recognition of human dignity, individual freedom, and civil or personal rights, and were centrally interested in the fundamental problems of liberal political philosophy. Problems of Idealism, Landmarks, and De Profundis are particularly significant for gauging the evolution of "classical" and "new" liberalism as Russia entered its age of revolution. The initial idea for what is now widely regarded as the second "landmark" of the Silver Age, Vekhi, came from Mikhail Gershenzon, a literary historian and collaborator on Kistiakovskii's journal. The themes of human dignity, justice, and cultural endeavor also drove the arguments that Sergei Kotliarevskii developed in his major work, Power and Law.