The Lost Chance of Conservative Modernization: S. F. Sharapov in the Economic Debates of the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
The Lost Chance of Conservative Modernization: S. F. Sharapov in the Economic Debates of the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century

Summary/Abstract: The concept of “conservative modernization” is gaining wide acceptance in contemporary Russia. Striving to overcome backwardness while preserving traditional values, the political tradition of authoritarianism in Russia has found a champion in President Dmitri Medvedev.2 These intellectual developments in Russia are paralleled by two interrelated and internationally significant discussions on the resilience of national traditions in an era of globalization and on the relevance of non-liberal capitalist models for late industrialized countries.3 These questions shaped the intellectual context in which Slavophilism is again being debated in Russian society, and Sergei Fedorovich Sharapov, one of the most outstanding representatives of the last, pre-revolutionary generation of Slavophiles, is returning to the newly erected pantheon of ideologists of “conservative modernization,” whose ideas are believed to replicate the concepts of Friedrich List and Gustav von Schmoller.

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