Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Threading the Needle: The Soviet Order between Exceptionalism and Shared Modernity
Part I. Russian and Soviet Modernity
1. Multiple Modernities vs. Neo-Traditionalism: On Ongoing Debates in Russian and Soviet History
2. The Intelligentsia, the Masses, and the West: Particularities of Russian/Soviet Modernity
Part II. Ideology, Concepts, and Institutions
3. The Blind Men and the Elephant: Six Faces of Ideology in the Soviet Context
4. What Is Cultural Revolution? Key Concepts and the Arc of Soviet Cultural Transformation, 1910s–1930s
5. Symbiosis to Synthesis: The Communist Academy and the Bolshevization of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1918–1929
Part III. Mediators and Travelers
6. Understanding and Loving the New Russia: Mariia Kudasheva as Romain Rolland’s Cultural Mediator
7. A “Prussian Bolshevik” in Stalin’s Russia: Ernst Niekisch at the Crossroads between Communism and National Socialism
Notes
Index