The icon and the axe : an interpretive history of Russian culture / by James H. Billington.

By:

Billington, James H [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780394708461

LOC classification:

DK32 .I266 1970
DK32

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Contents:

Forest: Axe and icon -- Bell and cannon -- Confrontation: Muscovite ideology -- Coming of the west: Novgorod -- "Latins" -- "Germans" -- Religious wars -- Century of Schism: Split within: Theocratic answer -- Fundamentalist answer -- Great change -- Westward turn: New religious answers -- Sectarian tradition -- New world of St. Petersburg -- Defense of Muscovy -- Century of aristocratic culture: Troubled enlightenment: Dilemma of the reforming despot -- Fruits of the enlightenment -- Alienation of the intellectuals -- Novikov and masonry -- Frustration of political reform -- Anti-enlightenment: Catholics -- Pietists -- Orthodox -- Legacy -- "Cursed questions": Flight to philosophy -- Meaning of history -- Prophetic role of art -- Missing Madonna -- "Hamlet question" -- On to new shores: Turn to social thought -- Agony of populist art -- New perspectives of the waning century: Constitutional liberalism -- Dialectical materialism -- Mystical idealism -- Uncertain colossus: Crescendo: Prometheanism -- Sensualism -- Apocalypticism -- Soviet era: Leninist legacy -- Revenge of Muscovy -- Fresh ferment: Reprise of Pasternak -- New voices -- Irony of Russian history.

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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	DK32.7 .B5 1970 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923000665634

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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.

Background: Kiev -- Forest: Axe and icon -- Bell and cannon -- Confrontation: Muscovite ideology -- Coming of the west: Novgorod -- "Latins" -- "Germans" -- Religious wars -- Century of Schism: Split within: Theocratic answer -- Fundamentalist answer -- Great change -- Westward turn: New religious answers -- Sectarian tradition -- New world of St. Petersburg -- Defense of Muscovy -- Century of aristocratic culture: Troubled enlightenment: Dilemma of the reforming despot -- Fruits of the enlightenment -- Alienation of the intellectuals -- Novikov and masonry -- Frustration of political reform -- Anti-enlightenment: Catholics -- Pietists -- Orthodox -- Legacy -- "Cursed questions": Flight to philosophy -- Meaning of history -- Prophetic role of art -- Missing Madonna -- "Hamlet question" -- On to new shores: Turn to social thought -- Agony of populist art -- New perspectives of the waning century: Constitutional liberalism -- Dialectical materialism -- Mystical idealism -- Uncertain colossus: Crescendo: Prometheanism -- Sensualism -- Apocalypticism -- Soviet era: Leninist legacy -- Revenge of Muscovy -- Fresh ferment: Reprise of Pasternak -- New voices -- Irony of Russian history.

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