Russia and the West: The New Debate on the Uniqueness of Cultures

Foursov's and Pivovarov's concepts are shown in a systematic overview. Their intellectual origins are traced back to the Russian Africanist Vladimir Kiyiov's analysis of precapitalist modes of production centering on different correlations of individual and collective forms of labor....

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Published in:Review - Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations Historical Systems, and Civilizations, 1998, Vol.21 (2), p.221-245
Main Authors: Fuchs, Marina, Nolte, Hans-Heinrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capitalism
Christian history
Communism
Crosscultural Analysis
Economic History
Europe
Marxian economics
On Russia: Reactions to Foursov
Political History
Political revolutions
Russia
Russian culture
Russian history
Russian politics
Slavophilism
Theoretical Problems
World systems
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Summary:Foursov's and Pivovarov's concepts are shown in a systematic overview. Their intellectual origins are traced back to the Russian Africanist Vladimir Kiyiov's analysis of precapitalist modes of production centering on different correlations of individual and collective forms of labor. The latter was characterized as the Asiatic mode of production, which did not develop much dynamism. The Christian historical subjects, centered on individualism, were more expansive, but the Russian- Orthodox differed from the Latin-Christian by expanding in space, not time. Following the revolutions of the sixteenth century the historical subject of Russia came to be power, that of the Latin-Christian world capital. The main components of the modern "Russian system" are power and population--a third component "intelligentsia" being the weakest part. This concept is criticized from the point of view that the specific traits of Russian history may better be explained by Russia's place in the semiperiphery of the "European world-system" than by defining it as an own "Russian system."
ISSN:0147-9032
2327-445X