title: Stalinism, Boyars and the Russian Tradition
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metadata.value: Dvornichenko, Andrey Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T10:51:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T10:51:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.value: Dvornichenko A. Yu. Stalinism, Boyars and the Russian Tradition. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 2, pp. 636–647.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.218
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10297
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The author of this review engages in controversy not only with the book by J. Arch Getty,
  but also with the representatives of this trend in historiography, both western and eastern.
  Undoubtedly, there are a number of archaic traditions in the Soviet Union and contemporary
  Russia as far as their political, economic and cultural foundations are concerned, especially in
  comparison with the Western countries. Without some definition and studying of these traditions
  one could not understand a peculiarity of the Russian political system. Here the author
  of the review agrees with the book. But it is important to define what archaic tradition is and
  what we are studying. J. Arch Getty and some specialists in Political Science try to find those
  traditions in so called ‘political practices’. They affirm that such traditions are as old as the hills.
  It is this approach that causes disagreement. In the reviewer’s opinion, nothing changes in the
  Russian history but the ‘political practice’, which really can be transformed. Having said that,
  we must show what this ‘nothing’ is. Although the Russian history is indivisible, it consists
  of some epochs which are different from one another. What hasn’t undergone changes is the
  state-serfdom Russian order which took shape in the middle of the 17th century and exists
  nowadays. In his review the author criticizes some cliché of Political Science. Such magic clues
  for Russian history as ‘patrimonialism’ and the ‘patron-client relations’ cause doubts. As far
  as the former is concerned, it is so vague that can be applicable to anything. For this reason it
  is not very harmful to the study of Russia. But one can’t say so about the latter. Being adopted
  by History from Anthropology, this theory has been very popular among some Russian and
  foreign historians. The author once more stresses the significance of anthropological data and
  their role in the historical research. But some anthropological data taken from their historical
  and cultural context may have a detrimental impact on scholarship. The author does not want
  to accuse Getty because he is a talented and diligent scholar, and his great desire to understand
  contemporary Russian history evokes only sympathy. But we have to take into account the historical approach, in other words, historicism, otherwise we can distort the historical
  perspective.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: J. Arch Getty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stalinism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political practices
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: patrimonialism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: patron-client relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historicism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Stalinism, Boyars and the Russian Tradition
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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