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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Map
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Illustrations
Part I - Background
Chapter 1 - Kiev
Chapter 2 - The Forest
Axe and Icon
Bell and Cannon
Part II - The Confrontation
Chapter 1 - The Muscovite Ideology
Chapter 2 - The Coming of the West
Novgorod
“The Latins”
“The Germans”
The Religious Wars
Part III - The Century of Schism
Chapter 1 - The Split Within
The Theocratic Answer
The Fundamentalist Answer
The Great Change
Chapter 2 - The Westward Turn
New Religious Answers
The Sectarian Tradition
The New World of St. Petersburg
The Defense of Muscovy
Part IV - The Century of Aristocratic Culture
Chapter 1 - The Troubled Enlightenment
The Dilemma of the Reforming Despot
The Fruits of the Enlightenment
The Alienation of the Intellectuals
Novikov and Masonry
The Frustration of Political Reform
Chapter 2 - The Anti-Enlightenment
Catholics
Pietists
Orthodox
The Legacy
Chapter 3 - The “Cursed Questions”
The Flight to Philosophy
The Meaning of History
The Prophetic Role of Art
The Missing Madonna
The “Hamlet Question”
Part V - On to New Shores
Chapter 1 - The Turn to Social Thought
Chapter 2 - The Agony of Populist Art
Chapter 3 - New Perspectives of the Waning Century
Constitutional Liberalism
Dialectical Materialism
Mystical Idealism
Part VI - The Uncertain Colossus
Chapter 1 - Crescendo
Prometheanism
Sensualism
Apocalypticism
Chapter 2 - The Soviet Era
The Leninist Legacy
The Revenge of Muscovy
Chapter 3 - Fresh Ferment
The Reprise of Pasternak
New Voices
Chapter 4 - The Irony of Russian History
Bibliography
References
About the Author
Copyright
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