Politics And Culture In Eighteenth Century Russia

Author : Isabel De Madariaga
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317881893
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia written by Isabel De Madariaga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of thirteen major essays on eighteenth-century Russia by one of the most distinguished Western historians. They illustrate and explore three major themes: the development of the Russian state and Russian society, in the years when Russia was changing from a minor power on the European periphery to a major actor on the continental stage; the influence of western ideas and western thought on Russian politics and culture; and the impact of the Enlightenment on Russia. This is a substantial contribution not just to the history of Russia, but to early modern Europe generally.

Author : Isabel de Madariaga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-century Russia written by Isabel de Madariaga and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : V. M. Zhivov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book Language and Culture in Eighteenth-century Russia written by V. M. Zhivov and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zhivov's magisterial work tells the story of the creation of a new vernacularliterary language in modern Russia, an achievement arguably on a par with thenation's extraordinary military successes, territorial expansion, developmentof the arts, and formation of a modern empire.

Author : Marcus C. Levitt
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501757989
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia written by Marcus C. Levitt and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, arguing that the visual played a crucial role in the formation of early modern Russian culture and identity. Levitt traces the early modern Russian quest for visibility from jubilant self-discovery, to serious reflexivity, to anxiety and crisis. The book examines verbal constructs of sight—in poetry, drama, philosophy, theology, essay, memoir—that provide evidence for understanding the special character of vision of the epoch. Levitt's groundbreaking work represents both a new reading of various central and lesser known texts and a broader revisualization of Russian eighteenth-century culture. Works that have considered the intersections of Russian literature and the visual in recent years have dealt almost exclusively with the modern period or with icons. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia is an important addition to the scholarship and will be of major interest to scholars and students of Russian literature, culture, and religion, and specialists on the Enlightenment.

Author : Marc Raeff
Publisher : HarperOne
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia written by Marc Raeff and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 1966 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Raeff investigates the early development of the Russian intelligentsia, a unique social and political force that was instrumental in westernizing its country and fermenting the revolutionary movement.

Author : Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia. International Conference
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825898878
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-century Russia written by Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia. International Conference and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together forty papers from the Study Group's very successful international conference held in Wittenberg in 2004. The contributors include scholars from Russia, Britain, Germany, Italy and the US: papers are written in English and in Russian. Topics range widely over the life of the Empire and its emerging modern society, institutions and discourses. The volume brings together new research on literature and its social context, on cultural models and reception, on social groups and individuals, on history, law and economy: it offers an exciting interdisciplinary insight into Imperial Russia in the 'long' eighteenth century.

Author : Luba Golburt
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299298140
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Epoch written by Luba Golburt and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadow of Pushkin's Golden Age, Russia's eighteenth-century culture was relegated to an obscurity hardly befitting its actually radical legacy. Why did nineteenth-century Russians put the eighteenth century so quickly behind them? How does a meaningful present become a seemingly meaningless past? Interpreting texts by Lomonosov, Derzhavin, Pushkin, Viazemsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and others, Luba Golburt finds surprising answers.

Author : Jan Hennings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107050596
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia and Courtly Europe written by Jan Hennings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia.

Author : Aleksandr Kamenskii
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317454693
Total Pages : 309 pages
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Download or read book The Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Tradition and Modernization written by Aleksandr Kamenskii and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia's 18th-century drive toward modernity and empire under the two "greats" - Peter I and Catherine II - is captured in this work by one of Russia's outstanding young historians. The author develops three themes: Russia's relationship to the West; the transformation of "Holy Russia" into a multinational empire; and the effects of efforts to modernize Russia selectively along Western lines. Writing in a clear, crisp style, Kamenskii enlivens the narrative with observations from contemporary literary figures and political commentators that point up the lasting significance of the events he describes.

Author : Maureen Perrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521812275
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689 written by Maureen Perrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.