Russian Intellectual and Cultural History from the Ninth to the Twenty-First Century [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyrras, Nicholas S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Kyivan Rus--Intellectual life.

Kyivan Rus.

Russia--Intellectual life.

Russia.

Soviet Union--Intellectual life.

Soviet Union.

Russia (Federation)--Intellectual life.

Russia (Federation).

Kyivan Rus--Civilization.

Russia--Civilization.

Soviet Union--Civilization.

Russia (Federation)--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although new histories of Russia, often reflecting the author's cultural slant, appear regularly, there is a dearth of books that explain the Russian perspective. This work takes the opposite approach by acquainting readers with some of the foremost ideas in Russian cultural history. This book contains twelve color photographs and sixteen black and white photographs.

Contents:

RUSSIAN INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY FROM THE NINTH TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Geographic setting; Chapter 2. The beginning; Chapter 3. Spiritual foundations; Chapter 4. Cultural orientation; Chapter 5. Tatars and the rise of Muscovite Rus (Moscow); Chapter 6. The emergence of Tsarism; Chapter 7. The Seventeenth Century; Chapter 8. Peter the Great and the westernization of Russia; Chapter 9. The Age of Enlightenment; Chapter 10. Romanticism and revolutions

Chapter 11. Pushkin and LermentovChapter 12. Belinsky and Gogol; Chapter 13. Whither Russia; Chapter 14. The national aesthetic; Chapter 15. Goncharov and Turgenev; ""Peter the Great Interrogating Tsarevich Aleksei"" (1871); Partitions of Poland in 1772, 1792, and 1795; ""Pushkin Reciting before G. Derzhavin at Tsarkoe Selo"" (1911); ""A.S. Pushkin"" (1827); ""A Duel"" (1832-1834); A self-portrait (1837); ""The Apparition of Christ to the People"" (1837-1857); ""La Liberte guidant le peuple"" (1830); ""Last Day of Pompei"" (1830-1833); ""The Volga Boatmen"" (1870-1873)

""F.M. Dostoevsky"" (1872)""L.N. Tolstoy"" (1884); ""With a Red Wedge Beat the Whites"" (1920); ""The Bolshevik"" (1920); ""The Worker and Collective Farmer"" (1937); Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin (1945); Chapter 16. F.M. Dostoevsky (1821-1881); Chapter 17. L.N. Talstoy (1828-1910); Chapter 18. Fin de siecle; Chapter 19. The pending revolution; Chapter 20. Fruits of revolution; Chapter 21. The structure and government of the USSR; Chapter 22. Ideological demands; Chapter 23. Stalin; Chapter 24. Education and social values; Chapter 25. The thaw and dissidence

Chapter 26. Tenor of the times: From 1960s to 1980sChapter 27. End of the USSR; Chapter 28. Contemporary Russia; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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ISBN:

0-7734-2959-X

OCLC:

817901772