The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. Volume 2: The Political Culture of the French Revolution. Colin LucasLa Révolution et l'ordre juridique privé: Rationalité ou scandale?.

1991 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-396
Author(s):  
Donald R. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Culture Volume ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The French Revolution

scholarly journals Transformation of the political culture of Russian monarchism in panegyrics at the turn of XVIII—XIX centuries

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
K. D. Bugrov ◽  
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V. S. Ivshin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Analogy ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Military ◽  
The French Revolution

The article analyzes the transformation of the “Peter-Catherine imagery” in the panegyric literature of the late XVIII — first quarter of the XIX century. The paper demonstrates the evolution of this imagery against the background of the French Revolution of 1789, the formation of an adamant cult of Catherine at the end of the empress’s reign, the stability of this cult in the panegyric tradition during the reign of Paul I and the first years of Alexander’s reign. The use of the “Catherine imagery” in secular panegyrics dedicated to the accession of Alexander I was unique: it aimed at presenting the new monarch not only as the new Peter, but also as the new Catherine, while criticizing Paul’s “tyranny”. At the same time, the political theology of the “beautiful days of Alexander’s reign” lacked the historical analogy with the “Catherine imagery”, which allowed the authors to conclude that the cult of Catherine II began to gradually “die away” during the reign of Alexander I and the figure of the tsar himself as the savior of Russia and Europe against the background of the military fortune of 1812 was subsequently redefined.

The New Regime

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Crook
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Administrative Framework ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Liberal Perspective ◽  
Constitutional Monarchy ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter aims to establish the first years of the French Revolution as a radical experiment in the practice of democracy, and to overturn the ‘moderate’ or ‘liberal’ perspective that many historians have adopted. Following the wholesale destruction of the ancien régime and the principles laid down in 1789 for the creation of a replacement, a new political culture emerged. The administrative framework that was rapidly instituted was by no means decentralized, but it proved incapable of controlling the great explosion of political activity and discussion, which subverted rather than supported the foundation of representative government. The analysis of elections, clubs and newspapers that flourished nationwide demonstrates these unruly dynamics of revolutionary citizenship, which the constitutional monarchy struggled to circumscribe. Despite the concerted efforts made to close this period of upheaval with the inception of the Constitution in the autumn of 1791, the Revolution was far from over.

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