Druhý život Borise N. Čičerina: přišel již čas na syntézu?
| Title in English | "Second Life" of Boris N. Chicherin: Time for Monograph? |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Author, in his chapter devoted to the "second life" of Boris N. Chicherin, follows the changes in the perception in the global subject literature of this important Russian intellectual of the 2nd half of the 19th century. Its goal is not to provide a complete, exhaustive summary of the secondary literature, but rather to document the trends in themes and contents surrounding the interpretation of this subject. The first relatively comprehensive evaluations of Chicherin's societal and professional stances were written in the period when there were still contemporary witnesses of Chicherin's life and when it was mostly his later works that were esteemed. These evaluations perceived him mainly as an important legal expert and theoretician. After this, he was long primarily approached in Russia within the frameworks of historiography and of the phenomenon called the "state school"—and also in a way that did not help to improve the understanding of his ideas, or of the state school itself. Chicherin-the-lawyer was thus replaced with Chicherin-the-historian, nevertheless perceived primarily through the lens of his social and political views. Western research on Chicherin has, with rare exceptions, accented the political issues in his works. Chicherin's conception of Russian history has to date only been studied either through ideological lenses or as a minor topic alongside the other topics Chicherin covered. |
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