Russian Intellectual History: An Anthology

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Humanities Press, 1978 - History - 404 pages

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Contents

INTRODUCTION BY ISAIAH BERLIN
3
FEOFAN PROKOPOVICH
13
MIKHAIL VASILEVICH LOMONOSOV
31
Copyright

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Marc Raeff
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Marc Raeff
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Marc Raeff
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok Alexander Radishchev ancient become boyars brain called century Christian Church citizens civilization concepts condition conscience consciousness consequently culture deeds duty enlightenment Europe European everything evil example existence expression external faith feeling Feofan Prokopovich force foreign freedom give glory Gogol happiness heart honor human ideals ideas individual inner intellectual intelligentsia labor land learning live logical Max Stirner means mind monarch moral Moscow nature never Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin noble object okolnichii opinion organism parents passions peasants Peter Petersburg philosophy Pnin political principles Protestantism Pushkin reason religious Roman ruler Russian scholasticism sense Slavophiles social society soul sovereign speak spirit Tatar things thought throne tion true truth Tsar tutor upbringing Valentine Snow violence virtue Western nations Whiggism whole words writings

About the author (1978)

Russian historian Marc Raeff was born in Moscow on July 28, 1923. He moved to the United States with his family and briefly attended City College of New York before being drafted into the Army during World War II. He spent the war years as an interpreter in prisoner-of-war camps. He received a Ph.D from Harvard University in 1950. He taught at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1949 to 1961 and at Columbia University from 1961 to 1988. He was one of the country's leading scholars of Russian history specializing in imperial Russia. His wrote numerous books including Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia, Understanding Imperial Russia, and Russia Abroad: A Cultural History of Russian Emigration, 1919 - 1939. He died from Lou Gehrig's disease on September 20, 2008 at the age of 85.

Bibliographic information

TitleRussian Intellectual History: An Anthology
Harbrace series in Russian area studies
AuthorMarc Raeff
EditorMarc Raeff
Editionreprint
PublisherHumanities Press, 1978
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedJul 8, 2009
ISBN0391009044, 9780391009042
Length404 pages
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