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Author : Erich Donnert
Release : 1986
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Russia in the Age of Enlightenment by : Erich Donnert
Download or read book Russia in the Age of Enlightenment written by Erich Donnert. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Дмитрий Иванович Ростиславов
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment by : Дмитрий Иванович Ростиславов
Download or read book Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment written by Дмитрий Иванович Ростиславов. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov--a mathematician, teacher, and social critic--offers a rare firsthand view of provincial Russia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Translated into English for the first time, these extraordinary observations reveal much about daily village life and the cultural milieu of the time. An acute observer, Rostislavov discusses social and ethnic relationships as well as matters pertaining to education, law enforcement, religious practice, and folk beliefs. Rostislavov's account of his own education is a harrowing description of coming of age in a Darwinian world of violence and cruelty. Coarse, impoverished schoolboys, brutal and corrupt teachers, and callous landlords formed a harsh environment characterized by sadistic corporal punishment and bitter class hatreds. Variously humorous, elegiac, and passionate, his narrative shows why even those from relatively privileged backgrounds came to detest the authoritarian order of the old regime. In a probing analysis of the Russian national order, Rostislavov found the twin evils facing Russia to be the coarseness of traditional society and the authoritarianism and corruption of the regime and its representatives. Russia's hope for the future, he believed, lay with cultural changes that would ultimately raise the society's moral level. Illustrations, maps, and an introduction illuminating the historical context accompany this remarkable account of life in provincial Russia.
Author : Roger Bartlett
Release : 1990-08-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Russia in the Age of the Enlightenment by : Roger Bartlett
Download or read book Russia in the Age of the Enlightenment written by Roger Bartlett. This book was released on 1990-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger P. Bartlett
Release : 1990
Genre : Enlightenment
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Download or read book Russia in the Age of the Enlightment written by Roger P. Bartlett. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Gareth Jones
Release : 2009-05-07
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Nikolay Novikov by : W. Gareth Jones
Download or read book Nikolay Novikov written by W. Gareth Jones. This book was released on 2009-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikolay Novikov (1744-1818) was a key figure in Russian cultural life under Catherine the Great. He was in turn a successful journalist, historiographer, educator, publisher, leading freemason and philanthropist and he left his distinctive mark on each of these spheres at a formative moment in Russia. This book is a Western study of Novikov's complete career and it shows how he responded to Catherine's enlightened despotism in cultural matters and why their ways eventually parted. Novikov is viewed here not only as a founding father of the Russian intelligentsia, but as a representative of the general European Enlightenment, who discovered and encouraged a new generation of writers. A knowledge of Novikov and the kind of enlightenment he strove to spread in Russia is important for an understanding of the particular cast of mind evident in Russian thought and writings in the nineteenth century. The book will therefore be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students of Russian literature and intellectual history.
