A History of Russian Thought (Hardcover)

Preface; Part I. Context: 1. Introduction William Leatherbarrow and Derek Offord; 2. The political and social order David Saunders; 3. Russian intelligentsias Gary Hamburg; Part II. Intellectual Currents: 4. Russia's eighteenth-century Enlightenment Gareth Jones; 5. Conservatism in the age of Alexander I and Nicholas I William Leatherbarrow; 6. Nihilism Richard Peace; 7. Tradition and counter-tradition: the radical intelligentsia and classical Russian literature Gary Saul Morson; 8. Religious renaissance in the Silver Age Ruth Coates; Part III. Themes and Constructs: 9. The West Vera Tolz; 10. The East David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye; 11. The people Derek Offord; 12. The intelligentsia and capitalism Wayne Dowler; 13. Natural science Charles Ellis; Part IV. The Afterlife of Classical Thought: 14. Continuities in the Soviet period Galin Tihanov; 15. Dialectical materialism and Soviet science in the 1920s and 1930s Daniel Todes and Nikolai Krementsov; 16. Afterword James Scanlan; Biographical appendix; Selected bibliography; Index.