Description: Product Description : The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism Aspiring thinkers require a stage for their performance and an audience to help give their actions distinction and meaning To be made durable and influential their charismatic stories have to be framed by supporting ideals practices and institutions Although the biographies of the Empires most famous thinkers have a comfortable platform in modern Russias printed record scholars have yet to explore fully the intimate context surrounding their activities in the early nineteenth century There is as a result a certain homeless quality to our understandings of Imperial Russian culture which this history of one extremely productive home will help us correctfrom The House in the GardenThe House in the Garden explores the role played by domesticity in the making of Imperial Russian intellectual traditions It tells the story of the Bakunins a distinguished noble family who in 1779 chose to abandon their home in St Petersburg for a rustic manor house in central Russias Tver Province At the time the Russian government was encouraging its elite subjects to see their private lives as a forum for the representation of imperial virtues and norms Drawing on the familys vast archive Randolph describes the Bakunins attempts to live up to this ideal and to convert their new home Priamukhino into an example of modern civilization In particular Randolph shows how the Bakunin home fostered the development of a group of charismatic young students from Moscow University who in the 1830s sought to use their experiences at Priamukhino to reimagine themselves as agents of Russias enlightenmentSome of the story Randolph tells is familiar to historians The anarchist Mikhail Bakunin whose early philosophical evolution Randolph describes was born at Priamukhino while the radical critic Vissarion Belinsky claimed to have been transformed by his experiences there When Tom Stoppard sought to portray the spiritual history of the Russian intelligentia in his trilogy The Coast of Utopia he chose Priamukhino as the scene for act 1 Yet Randolphs research allows us to watch this drama from a radically different perspective It shows how the culture of Russian Idealismso long presumed to be a product of alienationactually relied on the support provided by the cult of distinction that the Russian government had built around noble homes It also allows us to see the other actors and agents of private lifeand most notably the Bakunin womenas participants in the creation of modern Russian social thought The result is a work that revises our understanding of Russian intellectual history while also contributing to the histories of women gender private life and memory in nineteenthcentury Russia( it is an used product )
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Brand: Cornell University Press
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ISBN-10: 801445426
ISBN-13: 9780801445422
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No. of Pages: 304
Type: Books
Book Title: House in the Garden : the Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2007
Topic: Historiography, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Movements / Idealism, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Sociology / Marriage & Family
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Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: John Randolph
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
