Russian intellectual and cultural history from the ninth to the twenty-first century
By: Nicholas Tyrras ; with a foreword by John Young.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773438491
Subjects: Russian literature -- History and criticism; 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Geographic setting; title: The beginnings; title: Spiritual foundations; title: Cultural orientation; title: Tatars and the rise of Moscow; title: Emergence of tsarism; title: Seventeenth century; title: Peter I and westernization; title: The Age of Enlightenment; title: Romanticism and revolution; title: Pushkin and Lermontov; title: Belinsky and Gogol; title: Whither Russia; title: The national aesthetic; title: Goncharov and Turgenev; title: Dostoevsky; title: Tolstoy; title: Fin de siecle; title: The pending revolution; title: Fruits of the revolution; title: Structure of the USSR; title: Ideological demands; title: Stalin; title: Education and social values; title: Thaw and dissidence; title: Tenor of the times; title: End of the USSR; title: Contemporary Russia.