Nikolai Ivanovich Kareev (; 6 December 1850 – 18 February 1931) was a historian and philosopher from the

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and later the

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. He was educated at

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and earned his doctorate in history in 1884.

Life

Like many other intellectuals in Russia, Kareev was deeply influenced by the liberal, progressive, constitutional, and Socialist movements developing in Russia in the late nineteenth century.

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, the Russian Anarchist, describes him as one of the few who correctly understood the French Revolution, because he had studied "movements preceding the revolution of July 14".

Works

* Философия культурной и социальной истории нового времени (Filosofiia kulturnoi i sotsialnoi istorii novago vremeni, 1893) * История Западной Европы в начале XX века (Istorii͡a Zapadnoi Evropy v nat͡schalie XX vieka / Moskva : izd.otdel Moskovskago nauchnago ins-ta, 1920) * Историология (Istoriologiia, 1915)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kareev, Nikolai Ivanovich 1850 births 1931 deaths Writers from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd Nobility from the Russian Empire Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members Members of the 1st State Duma of the Russian Empire 19th-century historians from the Russian Empire Imperial Moscow University alumni Academic staff of the University of Warsaw Graduates of the 5th Moscow Gymnasium