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Russia, molding their thoughts, giving them
brotherhood in faith and a Slavonic literarv
language, the Latin of the East.
Chilizing
the
Slavs was Bvzantium'<
most enduring gift to the world/’ Harvard
Professor IhorSevcenko told me. Among the
consequences. Kievan Russia emerged from
pagan
isolation
to
join
the European
po-
litical and cultural community. Byzantium
was Russia’s gateway to Europe.
In Kiev,
Professor Andrei Bide, ki
told
me how Vladimir, prince in that .Mot her of
Russian
Cities, shopped about
for a
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gion tor his people. He sampled the Hebrew.
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was a key to understanding the chasm
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thought
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Byzantium—and Eastern Europe -
from the West
T he West transformed itself through
Renaissance. Reformation. Enlightenment
and the rise of science into a dvnamic societ
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ce liter-
universal faith. The:
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