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The study of humanitarianism has grown substantially in the past 20 years with historians examining both its intellectual roots and meaning and its practical manifestations. Drawing on a University of Manchester doctoral thesis, this book contributes to both strands of this historiography by considering the motivations and practices of a range of British, largely Quaker, humanitarians operating in and in favour of, late Imperial and early Soviet Russia. Its focus is on liberalism and nonconformity in a period of significant change for both. This allows the author to chart the shift in humanitarianism from a largely philanthropic and/or political project motivated by personal investment to a more detached and bureaucratic operation devoted to the efficient alleviation of suffering. Following an introduction that reviews the literature around British humanitarian interventions in early twentieth-century Russia, the book moves on to a consideration of traditions and motivations shaping these interventions. Central to much of this work was a nonconformist commitment to compassion and empathy shaped by the personal philanthropy of the giver. At the forefront of Russian humanitarianism w

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Author

Barry Doyle

Publisher

Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0955-2359)

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences