TY  - BOOK
AU  - Billington,James H
TI  - The icon and the axe: an interpretive history of Russian culture 
SN  - 9780394708461
AV  - DK32 .I266 1970
PY  - 1970///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
N1  - Reprint. Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966; 1 (pages 599-786) and index; 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; 2
ER  -