The Cultural Gradient The Transmission of

Is there a sharp dividing line that separates Europe into East and West? This volume brings together prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, France, Poland, and Russia to examine the evolution of the concept of Europe in the two centuries between the French Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Inspired by the ideas of Martin Malia, the contributors take a flexible view of the cultural gradient the emergence, interaction, and reception of ideas across Europe. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Introduction

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Catherine Evtuhov

I. HISTORY OF IDEAS

Translatio Imperii and Translatio Religionis: The ``Geography of Salvation'' in Russian and American Messianic Thinking

13

(20)

Laurence Dickey

The Religious Westernism of Ivan Gagarin

33

(22)

Andrzej Walicki

Guizot in Russia

55

(18)

Catherine Evtuhov

Alexander Herzen's ``Russian Socialism''

73

(22)

Natalia Pirumova

The Problem of ``Russia and the West'' in Russian Historiography (with special reference to M. I. Rostovtsev and P. N. Miliukov)

95

(14)

Terence Emmons

William James through a Russian Prism: The Case of the Moscow God-Seekers

109

(22)

Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal

II. REGIMES AND POLITICAL PRACTICE

Crosscurrents of French, Austrian, and Russian Security Policing, 1750--1900

131

(14)

Charles A. Ruud

Poland between East and West: Law, Order, and Political Policing in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815--1914

145

(22)

Elzbieta Kaczynska

Terror in Pravda, 1917--1939: All the News That Was Fit to Print

167

(20)

Glennys Young

Modern Times: The Soviet Union and the Interwar Conjuncture

187

(22)

Stephen Kotkin

Persistence of the Ethic of Soviet Socialism in Late Twentieth-Century Russia

209

(20)

N. G. O. Pereira

III. THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE: POLITICS AND INTELLECTUALS

Russia, Europe, and ``Western Civilization''

229

(14)

Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

A Critique of the Concept of Globalization

243

(14)

Alain Touraine

Scenes from the Polish Hell

257

(20)

Adam Michnik

Poland, Europe, and Russia

277

(6)

Jacques Le Goff

Foxes into Hedgehogs: Berlin and Tolstoy

283

(12)

Hugh McLean

Martin Malia and the Understanding of Russia

295

(16)

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

Index

311

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About the Contributors

321

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