Simmons Ernest (ed.) Continuity and change in Russian and Soviet thought

New York: Russell & Russell, 1967. — 600 p.This volume is the result of an extensive collaborative effort which took the initial form of a Conference held at Arden House, March 26-28, 1954, under the auspices of the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. A steering committee of ten of the leading scholars in the field of Russian studies planned the thematic structure of the Conference and selected the participants. Six broad themes (“Realism and Utopia in Russian Economic Thought,” “Authoritarianism and Democracy,” “Collectivism and Individualism,” “Rationality and Nonrationality,” “Literature, State, and Society,” “Russia and the Community of Nations — Messianic Views and Theory of Action”), representing major focuses in the study of continuity and change in Russian and Soviet thought, were designated. Under each of these themes four or five subtopics were assigned for purposes of research. These papers were intended to effect confrontations of various phases of pre- and postrevolutionary Russian and Soviet thought, confrontations which would in turn point up aspects of either continuity qr change. In nearly every case the participants were chosen because they had already done, or were doing, research in the immediate fields of the subtopics.Introduction. Ernest J. SimmonsRealism and utopia in Russian economic thoughtThe Problem of Economic Development in Russian Intellectual History of the Nineteenth Century. Alexander Gerschenkron
Populism and Early Russian Marxism on Ways of Economic Development of Russia (The 1880’s and 1890’s). Solomon M. Schwarz
Chernov and Agrarian Socialism Before 1918. Oliver H. Radkey
Stalin’s Views on Soviet Economic Development. Alexander Erlich
Review. Alexander GerschenkronAuthoritarianism and DemocracyPobedonostsev on the Instruments of Russian Government. Robert F. Byrnes
Two Types of Russian Liberalism: Maklakov and Miliukov. Michael Karpovich
[i]Leninist Authoritarianism Before the Revolution. [i]Thomas T. Hammond
[i]Stalin and the Theory of Totalitarianism. [i]Adam Ulam
Review. Merle FainsodCollectivism and IndividualismKhomiakov on Sobornost. Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
Herzen and the Peasant Commune. Martin E. Malia
Stalin and the Collective Farm. John D. Bergamini
Vyshinsky’s Concept of Collectivity. Julian Towster
The Hero and Society: The Literary Definitions (1855-1865, 1934-1939). Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr.
Review. Michael KarpovichRationality and NonrationalityReason and Faith in the Philosophy of Solov’ev Partiinost’ and Knowledge. Waldemar Gurian
Darwinism and the Russian Orthodox Church. George L. Kline
The Crisis of Soviet Biology. Theodosius Dobzhansky
Dialectic and Logic Since the War. Herbert Marcuse
Review. Geroid Tanquary RobinsonLiterature, State, and SocietySocial and Aesthetic Values in Russian Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (Belinskii, Chernyshevskii, Dobroliubov, Pisarev). Rene Wellek
Social and Aesthetic Criteria in Soviet Russian Criticism. Victor Erlich
Freedom and Repression in Prerevolutionary Russian Literature. Leon Stilman
Main Premises of the Communist Party in the Theory of Soviet Literary Controls. Robert M. Hankin
Review. Ernest J. SimmonsRussia фnd The Community Of Nations (Messianic Views and Theory of Action)Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty. Isaiah Berlin
Dostoyevsky and Danilevsky: Nationalist Messianism. Hans Kohn
The Messianic Concept in the Third International, 1935-1939. Kermit E. Mckenzie
Great Russian Messianism in Postwar Soviet Ideology. Frederick C. Barghoorn
Review. Philip E. Mosely