Derek Offord
Biographic Data
| ID | 963874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Offord |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Offord |
| SIGNATURE | OFFORD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7318-0693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
Chekhov in Context
Vanessa Rampton. Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia
Journal Article Vanessa Rampton. Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution. Get access Vanessa Rampton. Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. ix, 229. Hardback £75.00. Derek Offord Derek Offord University of Bristol, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
A New Perspective in Russian Intellectual History
G. M. Hamburg, Russia’s Path Toward Enlightenment: Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500–1801. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016, 912 p. ISBN: 9780300113136
Sociolinguistics and history
Using a study of the historical phenomenon of Franco-Russian bilingualism in imperial Russia as its point of departure, this article has three interlocking aims. First, it reflects on the common interest that historical sociolinguists and certain types of historian have in language use and language choice. Secondly, building on recent work by historical sociolinguists, it considers the ways in which historians’ and historical sociolinguists’ inve…
Deborah Pearl. Creating a Culture of Revolution
Deborah Pearl’s purpose in Creating a Culture of Revolution: Workers and the Revolutionary Movement in Late Imperial Russia is to reexamine the history of the Russian revolutionary movement over the period from the early 1870s to 1905, approaching the subject from a different perspective from that used by most scholars who have previously addressed it. She focuses not on the whole range of activity of the leading revolutionary groups (Land and Li…
The Functions and Value of Foreign Languages in Eighteenth-Century Russia
A History of Russian Thought
"The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This new history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitu…
Lost in Translation
I begin by offering a brief definition of the term “rationalism”, first in its strictly philosophical sense as denoting preference for the use of reason over other means of acquiring knowledge, and then in its broader sense as a term denoting patient reasoning, scepticism and reappraisal of received opinions. In this latter sense rationalism informed the critical movement in seventeenth‐ and eighteenth‐century European thought which challenged do…
A History of Russian Thought
The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitudes t…
Alexander Herzen
Alexander Herzen is a figure of great importance in the history of Russian thought. He was interested in the historical development of the notion of personhood. Herzen, who from the early 1840s attached particular importance to individual liberty, succumbed to notions or ways of thinking that might be regarded as inconsistent to some degree with his libertarianism. The author pursues this claim with reference to Herzen’s writings in the early yea…
Journeys to a Graveyard
Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close cont…
Denis Fonvizin and the Concept of Nobility
The article examines the contribution made by Denis Fonvizin, one of the major men of letters of the age of Catherine the Great, to debate about the status and function of the eighteenth-century Russian nobility. This contribution is set in the context of changes in the balance between the nobility’s obligations to the state and the privileges it enjoyed and in the context of contemporary court politics. Aware of western debates on the subject, F…
The Russian Revolutionary Movement in the 1880s
Portraits of Early Russian Liberals
The Russian Revolutionary Movement in the 1880s
The book deals with the various revolutionary groups active in Russia in the 1880s. The first chapter attempts a definition of Populism, examines the main strategies on which revolutionary activity was based in the 1870s, traces the development of the main organisations of that decade and discusses their relationship to the prevailing theories. The three following chapters examine the history of the organisations of the 1880s in the light of this…
Portraits of Early Russian Liberals
This book studies the work of five Russian liberal thinkers who were active in the period 1840–60 against the general background of Russian history, literature and thought in that period. All five thinkers (to each of whom a separate chapter is devoted) played an important part in the flowering of Russian letters in the 1840s, and were involved in the attempt of the intelligentsia, the conscience of the nation, to bring more humane and enlightene…
Language and educational attainment at 10
Language and educational attainment at 10
Portraits of Early Russian Liberals
This book studies the work of five Russian liberal thinkers who were active in the period 1840–60 against the general background of Russian history, literature and thought in that period. All five thinkers (to each of whom a separate chapter is devoted) played an important part in the flowering of Russian letters in the 1840s, and were involved in the attempt of the intelligentsia, the conscience of the nation, to bring more humane and enlightene…
The Russian Revolutionary Movement in the 1880s
The book deals with the various revolutionary groups active in Russia in the 1880s. The first chapter attempts a definition of Populism, examines the main strategies on which revolutionary activity was based in the 1870s, traces the development of the main organisations of that decade and discusses their relationship to the prevailing theories. The three following chapters examine the history of the organisations of the 1880s in the light of this…
Portraits of Early Russian Liberals
The Russian Revolutionary Movement in the 1880s
Journeys to a Graveyard
Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close cont…
Denis Fonvizin and the Concept of Nobility
The article examines the contribution made by Denis Fonvizin, one of the major men of letters of the age of Catherine the Great, to debate about the status and function of the eighteenth-century Russian nobility. This contribution is set in the context of changes in the balance between the nobility’s obligations to the state and the privileges it enjoyed and in the context of contemporary court politics. Aware of western debates on the subject, F…
A History of Russian Thought
The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitudes t…
Alexander Herzen
Alexander Herzen is a figure of great importance in the history of Russian thought. He was interested in the historical development of the notion of personhood. Herzen, who from the early 1840s attached particular importance to individual liberty, succumbed to notions or ways of thinking that might be regarded as inconsistent to some degree with his libertarianism. The author pursues this claim with reference to Herzen’s writings in the early yea…
Lost in Translation
I begin by offering a brief definition of the term “rationalism”, first in its strictly philosophical sense as denoting preference for the use of reason over other means of acquiring knowledge, and then in its broader sense as a term denoting patient reasoning, scepticism and reappraisal of received opinions. In this latter sense rationalism informed the critical movement in seventeenth‐ and eighteenth‐century European thought which challenged do…
A History of Russian Thought
"The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This new history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitu…
The Functions and Value of Foreign Languages in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Deborah Pearl. Creating a Culture of Revolution
Deborah Pearl’s purpose in Creating a Culture of Revolution: Workers and the Revolutionary Movement in Late Imperial Russia is to reexamine the history of the Russian revolutionary movement over the period from the early 1870s to 1905, approaching the subject from a different perspective from that used by most scholars who have previously addressed it. She focuses not on the whole range of activity of the leading revolutionary groups (Land and Li…
A New Perspective in Russian Intellectual History
G. M. Hamburg, Russia’s Path Toward Enlightenment: Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500–1801. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016, 912 p. ISBN: 9780300113136
Sociolinguistics and history
Using a study of the historical phenomenon of Franco-Russian bilingualism in imperial Russia as its point of departure, this article has three interlocking aims. First, it reflects on the common interest that historical sociolinguists and certain types of historian have in language use and language choice. Secondly, building on recent work by historical sociolinguists, it considers the ways in which historians’ and historical sociolinguists’ inve…
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
Chekhov in Context
Vanessa Rampton. Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia
Journal Article Vanessa Rampton. Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution. Get access Vanessa Rampton. Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. ix, 229. Hardback £75.00. Derek Offord Derek Offord University of Bristol, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
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