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- W2320070645 abstract "The Russian Review is to be congratulated for at last publishing Ned Keenan's essay on Russian culture, which has long enjoyed the status of an underground classic. A cursory reading makes clear why earlier redactions of the paper created such a stir. The adjectives original, imaginative, and stimulating are normally restricted to statements of the most extravagant praise. Applied to Keenan's scholarly writings they seem almost trite. The present essay is no exception. Keenan's reflections resemble a conceptual light show. Brilliant images repeatedly flash before the readers' eyes. Alluring metaphors abound: the tsars of Muscovy were referees of a system that amounted to a conspiracy against ... chaos. Abstractions such as politics have unstable and shifting meanings, and fashionable jargon decorates the surface of the argument. In their new environment, readers easily lose their sense of time: data from the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries blend indiscriminately into a changeless structure of Muscovite politics. We are dealing, then, with a prodigiously gifted historian who is also a skilled illusionist. The notion of a Russian political forms the foundation of Keenan's arguments. The concept of a political is elusive and, in the Russian case, is open to the self-serving reductionism of those who argue that, since Russians have long tolerated tyranny at home and supported aggressiveness on the international scene, it is hopeless to expect better relations with the Soviet Union in the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, in spite of its perils, the concept is a useful way to get at the real differences in attitudes and conditioned reflexes that clearly distinguish one society from another. Keenan's basic premise is quite correct: Russians' assumptions and behavior differ significantly from those of Englishmen, Chinese or Ethiopians. One wishes only that, like the scientists who first developed the concept, he had attempted to explain explicitly how, in their upbringing, individual Russians were socialized into the assumptions and practices of their society. From this sound basic assumption, Keenan draws one disturbing corollary-that the dominant culture of Russia was monolithic. In his view, dissenting individuals and groups did not constitute a distinct component of the culture, but stood entirely outside its parameters and therefore could not even understand it. Could one not claim, with more justification, that westernized dissenting intellectuals and would-be reformers formed" @default.
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