Esther Kingston-Mann is Ford Service Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution and coeditor and contributor to Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921 (Princeton).

• PrefaceIntroduction3Ch. 1The True West: England, France, and Germany9Ch. 2In the Light and Shadow of the West: Progress in the Age of Enlightenment34Ch. 3The Lessons of Western Economics: Support or Challenge to the Status Quo?61Ch. 4Universalism and Its Discontents: The Laws of History, Economics, and Human Progress93Ch. 5Intersections of Western and Russian Culture: Russian Historical Economics112Ch. 6Capturing the "Essence" of Marx: The Emergence of Orthodox Marxism132Ch. 7In Search of the True West: England, Denmark, and Germany147Ch. 8The Demise of Economic Pluralism: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Model for Progress and Development166Ch. 9Cultures of Modernization on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century: Notes toward a Conclusion181Notes199Selected Bibliography257Index289

Esther Kingston-Mann is Ford Service Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution and coeditor and contributor to Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921 (Princeton).

• PrefaceIntroduction3Ch. 1The True West: England, France, and Germany9Ch. 2In the Light and Shadow of the West: Progress in the Age of Enlightenment34Ch. 3The Lessons of Western Economics: Support or Challenge to the Status Quo?61Ch. 4Universalism and Its Discontents: The Laws of History, Economics, and Human Progress93Ch. 5Intersections of Western and Russian Culture: Russian Historical Economics112Ch. 6Capturing the "Essence" of Marx: The Emergence of Orthodox Marxism132Ch. 7In Search of the True West: England, Denmark, and Germany147Ch. 8The Demise of Economic Pluralism: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Model for Progress and Development166Ch. 9Cultures of Modernization on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century: Notes toward a Conclusion181Notes199Selected Bibliography257Index289

Esther Kingston-Mann is Ford Service Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution and coeditor and contributor to Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921 (Princeton).

• PrefaceIntroduction3Ch. 1The True West: England, France, and Germany9Ch. 2In the Light and Shadow of the West: Progress in the Age of Enlightenment34Ch. 3The Lessons of Western Economics: Support or Challenge to the Status Quo?61Ch. 4Universalism and Its Discontents: The Laws of History, Economics, and Human Progress93Ch. 5Intersections of Western and Russian Culture: Russian Historical Economics112Ch. 6Capturing the "Essence" of Marx: The Emergence of Orthodox Marxism132Ch. 7In Search of the True West: England, Denmark, and Germany147Ch. 8The Demise of Economic Pluralism: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Model for Progress and Development166Ch. 9Cultures of Modernization on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century: Notes toward a Conclusion181Notes199Selected Bibliography257Index289