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A history of Russian thought /

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Leatherbarrow, William J., Offord, Derek
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Context
  • Introduction / William Leatherbarrow and Derek Offord
  • The political and social order / David Saunders
  • Russian intelligentsias / Gary Hamburg
  • pt. 2. Intellectual currents
  • Russia's eighteenth-century Enlightenment / Gareth Jones
  • Conservatism in the age of Alexander I and Nicholas I / William Leatherbarrow
  • Nihilism / Richard Peace
  • Tradition and counter-tradition : the radical intelligentsia and classical Russian literature / Gary Saul Morson
  • Religious renaissance in the silver age / Ruth Coates
  • pt. 3. Themes and constructs
  • The West / Vera Tolz
  • The East / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
  • The people / Derek Offord
  • The intelligentsia and capitalism / Wayne Dowler
  • Natural science / Charles Ellis
  • pt. 4. The afterlife of classical thought
  • Continuities in the Soviet period / Galin Tihanov
  • Dialectical materialism and Soviet science in the 1920s and 1930s / Daniel Todes and Nikolai Krementsov
  • Afterword / James Scanlan
  • Biographical details of thinkers and writers.