Download or read book Liberalism in Pre-Revolutionary Russia written by Susanna Rabow-Edling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals were faced with a dilemma. They had to choose between modernizing their country, thus imitating the West, or reaffirming their own values and thereby remain socially underdeveloped and risk continued submission under Western powers. Scholars have argued that this led to the emergence of an anti-Western, a