A History of Russian Thought

by Leatherbarrow, William J.

• ISBN13: 9780521875219
• ISBN10: 0521875218
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-30
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Provides a fresh and comprehensive view of Russian intellectual thinkers, with fourteen essays by an international team of experts.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
List of contributors	p. xi
Dates, transliteration and other conventions	p. xv
Dates of reigns	p. xvii
Russian titles of journals, newspapers and miscellanies	p. xviii
Context	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
The political and social order	p. 17
Russian intelligentsias	p. 44
Intellectual Currents	p. 71
Russia's eighteenth-century Enlightenment	p. 73
Conservatism in the age of Alexander I and Nicholas I	p. 95
Nihilism	p. 116
Tradition and counter-tradition: the radical intelligentsia and classical Russian literature	p. 141
Religious renaissance in the Silver Age	p. 169
Themes and Constructs	p. 195
The West	p. 197
The East	p. 217
The people	p. 241
The intelligentsia and capitalism	p. 263
Natural science	p. 286
The Afterlife of Classical Thought	p. 309
Continuities in the Soviet period	p. 311
Dialectical materialism and Soviet science in the 1920s and 1930s	p. 340
Afterword	p. 368
Biographical details of thinkers and writers	p. 380
Selected bibliography	p. 403
Index	p. 426
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