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1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution. By Paul W. Werth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xviii, 213 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $49.95, hard bound
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 81, Heft 3, S. 803-804
ISSN: 2325-7784
The Predicament of Writing Political History: The Challenge of the Tacit
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 116-137
ISSN: 1467-8497
Political histories composed by contemporaries (or near contemporaries) are affected by the predicament of confronting the tacit in a past. Three case studies of famous writers of histories of politics in their own times are used to suggest an additional epistemology for political history which relies rather less on representations than has been common since the "Linguistic Turn" privileged the propositional thrall of discourses. My extra element attends to the tacit in human lives: affects and effects in context of the lived‐in and lived‐around of politics. My three case studies suggest that histories of politics and policies by contemporaries and near‐contemporaries do not simply amount to a re‐representation (broadly defined) of past representations (broadly defined). A wide angle is adopted; three case studies treat renowned political historians, ancient, mediæval and modern: Procopius in the mid‐sixth, Commynes in the late‐fifteenth, and A.J.P. Taylor in the mid‐twentieth centuries. Each of these "great" historians of politics was driven to discount the lived‐out‐loud of politics they narrated in, or close to, their own times. The predicament and the response is more general, I believe: all historians of politics have to try to situate and narrate things once taken‐for‐granted. That predicament prompted each of my three — and still prompts historians — to have to transcend "representationalism". The three cases show how and why history writing about politics also needs to attend to the habitual and tacit in a past, the ubiquitous things seldom represented. A controversial foundation for such an "extra" epistemology is then suggested: Dasein, the being‐of‐being, a key concept of Martin Heidegger's. The writing of political history by contemporaries (or near‐contemporaries) is then conceived as also a (ethnography‐like) study of past life‐worlds‐in‐being. This extra foundation for (very‐old and still current!) writing practices about power and politics emphasises metonyms over metaphors. Surprises discerned from contexts are emphasised over propositions peddled in representations. The metonyms disclosed by my three case studies, which I think apply in most writing about politics by contemporaries or near contemporaries, had to be inferred from contexts, rather than read as discourses. The tacit is elicited by contemporaries from (1) records and recollects of predicaments and situations, and from (2) reading actions as texts. Histories of politics are really about things people once felt and did, more than what they said, in their there‐and‐then.
Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered. Ed. Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. xii, 363 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. $34.95, paper bound
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 75, Heft 2, S. 467-468
ISSN: 2325-7784
The Predicament of Writing Political History: The Challenge of the Tacit
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 116-137
ISSN: 0004-9522
A Petrine Day of Display: 21 December 1709
In: Transcultural studies, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 5-29
ISSN: 2375-1606
This article analyses the royal pranks and new euro-iconographies asso-ciated with Peter the Great's extraordinary ceremonial procession through Moscow on 21 December 1709. Gates of Triumph were designed and erected at his express order soon after his success at Poltava on 27 June 1709, and then Peter troubled to commission series of engravings in March 1710. The arcane metaphors depicted in the gates and the royal pranks on the day are contrasted with portraits of the specific era 1709-11 to sketch the playful and subversive agenda of Peter's absolutist radical-ism at its moment of consolidation and on the eve of his iconoclastic mar-riage to Catherine.
Russkii liberal-anglofil Pavel Gavrilovich Vinogradov: Monografiia. By Aleksandr Vasil'evich Antoshchenko. Petrozavodsk: Izdatel'stvo Petrozavodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2010. 344 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Photographs. Paper
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 71, Heft 3, S. 701-702
ISSN: 2325-7784
Alain Badiou and authentic revolutions: Methods of intellectual enquiry
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 106, Heft 1, S. 39-55
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
This study explores new philosophical foundations for democracy in revolutions. Alain Badiou's thought is in focus, but this essay is not just an exegesis. The thought of Alain Badiou is appraised (and adapted) in this essay in the light of the main currents of European thought on the hopes and history of European revolutions. This essay dismisses Badiou's ultra-gauche Maoism, focusing instead on Badiou's ways to reconcile revolutionary change, social inclusion and human freedom. These ways are important. By overcoming hegemonic traditions of study, Badiou's methods promote democratic ethics of restraint. They also help re-invigorate methods in the social sciences privileging participant perspectives.
Alain Badiou and authentic revolutions: Methods of intellectual enquiry
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 106, Heft 1, S. 39-56
ISSN: 0725-5136
Meeting the sheltered and extra care housing needs of black and minority ethnic older people: a Race Equality Foundation briefing paper
In: Housing, care and support, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 41-48
ISSN: 2042-8375
Reporting in Prose: Reconsidering Ways of Writing History
In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Band 12, Heft 3, S. 311-336
ISSN: 1470-1316
Introduction: "Which Social History of Russia?"
In: The soviet and post-soviet review, Band 27, Heft 1-3, S. 135-141
ISSN: 1876-3324
The Village as Votchina. Attitudes To Property in the Post-Emancipation Russian Village
In: The soviet and post-soviet review, Band 27, Heft 1-3, S. 179-199
ISSN: 1876-3324
After Empire: The Contemporary Modern‐Mediaeval Revolutions of Europe's East
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 70-89
ISSN: 1467-8497