A history of Russian thought /

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Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description:	xix, 444 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Intellectual life. Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917. Russia -- Intellectual life. Soviet Union -- Intellectual life. Russia (Federation) Soviet Union.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8209622

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Other authors / contributors:	Leatherbarrow, William J. Offord, Derek.
ISBN:	9780521875219 (hbk.) 0521875218 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Summary:	"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 cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitudes to capitalism and natural science) in Russian intellectual history. Concentrating on the golden age of Russian thought in the mid-nineteenth-century, the contributors also look back to its eighteenth-century origins in the flowering of culture following the reign of Peter the Great, and forward to the continuing vitality of Russia's classical intellectual tradition in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. With brief biographical details of over fifty key thinkers and an extensive bibliography, this book provides a fresh, comprehensive overview of Russian intellectual history"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Preface
List of contributors
Dates, transliteration and other conventions
Dates of reigns
Russian titles of journals, newspapers and miscellanies
Part I. Context
1. Introduction
2. The political and social order
3. Russian intelligentsias
Part II. Intellectual Currents
4. Russia's eighteenth-century Enlightenment
5. Conservatism in the age of Alexander I and Nicholas I
6. Nihilism
7. Tradition and counter-tradition: the radical intelligentsia and classical Russian literature
8. Religious renaissance in the Silver Age
Part III. Themes and Constructs
9. The West
10. The East
11. The people
12. The intelligentsia and capitalism
13. Natural science
Part IV. The Afterlife of Classical Thought
14. Continuities in the Soviet period
15. Dialectical materialism and Soviet science in the 1920s and 1930s
16. Afterword
Biographical details of thinkers and writers
Selected bibliography
Index

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