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Russian intellectual and cultural history from the ninth to the twenty-first century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tyrras, Nicholas
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Selections in English translated from Russian originals.
Published: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Kievan Rus > Intellectual life.
Russia > Intellectual life.
Soviet Union > Intellectual life.
Russia (Federation) > Intellectual life.
Kievan Rus > Civilization.
Russia > Civilization.
Soviet Union > Civilization.
Russia (Federation) > Civilization.
Russian literature > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Geographic setting
  • The beginnings
  • Spiritual foundations
  • Cultural orientation
  • Tatars and the rise of Moscow
  • Emergence of tsarism
  • Seventeenth century
  • Peter the Great and westernization
  • The Age of Enlightenment
  • Romanticism and revolution
  • Pushkin and Lermontov
  • Belinsky and Gogol
  • Whither Russia
  • The national aesthetic
  • Goncharov and Turgenev
  • Dostoevsky
  • Tolstoy
  • Fin de siècle
  • The pending revolution
  • Fruits of the revolution
  • Structure of the USSR
  • Ideological demands
  • Stalin
  • Education and social values
  • Thaw and dissidence
  • Tenor of the times
  • End of the USSR
  • Contemporary Russia.