HIST 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Scientific Revolution, Antis, Sergei Bulgakov
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Should have been people argued for more modern reofmr, preserving some instituions of old russian regime but moving forward into new fashion in new modern and liberalized world. Constitution preserve system of legality and rights, and representative government bringing people into governing bodies, two main governing principles. Inteesting: russian liberalism is like marxism, encountered some people were pre-cursors to liberalism (spieransky, attempts to introduce some anglo-american institutinos into russian . Westernizers, some of them liberals, although most of them socialists. Until end of 19th century, liberalism is chosen ideology of very small group of people, era when nationalistic small group, reactionaries small, smaller then smallest groups: liberlaism mocked from both sides, as compromising ideology, those slavophiles argued purely. European, and not until late 19th century get a positive description of liberalism. No one wanted to be a liberal, if were mocked for it.
