A history of Russian thought / edited by William Leatherbarrow and Derek Offord.
"The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This new history examines important intellectual and cul...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Summary: | "The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This new history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitudes to capitalism and natural science) in Russian intellectual history. Concentrating on the golden age of Russian thought in the mid-nineteenth-century, the contributors also look back to its eighteenth-century origins in the flowering of culture following the reign of Peter the Great, and forward to the continuing vitality of Russia's classical intellectual tradition in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. With brief biographical details of over fifty key thinkers and an extensive bibliography, this book provides a fresh, comprehensive overview of Russian intellectual history"--Provided by publisher |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 444 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511770296 0511770294 9780511768606 0511768605 9780511845598 0511845596 1316088170 9781316088173 0511848315 9780511848315 1282651781 9781282651784 9786612651786 6612651784 0511767218 9780511767210 0511765827 9780511765827 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511845598 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |