Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Positions; Part I Foundations for Russian politics and society; 3 Law, culture and civility; 4 Liberal politics and nationhood; 5 Statehood, Russia and historical conditions of liberalism; Part II Foundations for Russian political and social theory; 6 Russian thought between East and West: Influences and misunderstandings; 7 Transition and transformation; 8 Modernity and political liberalism; 9 Chaos and anarchy in Russian society; 10 What is the 'Russian challenge' for Western liberal thought?; 11 Conclusion; Notes
Summary
Providing the first book-length comprehensive study of Russian political and social thought in the post-Communist era, this book portrays and critically examines the conceptual and theoretical attempts by Russian scholars and political thinkers to make sense of the challenges of post-communism
