A History of Russian Thought Book

Dates of reigns

Russian titles of journals, newspapers and miscellanies

Pt. I Context 1

1 Introduction William Leatherbarrow Leatherbarrow, William Derek Offord Offord, Derek 3

2 The political and social order David Saunders Saunders, David 17

3 Russian intelligentsias G. M. Hamburg Hamburg, G. M. 44

Pt. II Intellectual Currents 71

4 Russia's eighteenth-century Enlightenment W. Gareth Jones Jones, W. Gareth 73

5 Conservatism in the age of Alexander I and Nicholas I William Leatherbarrow Leatherbarrow, William 95

6 Nihilism Richard Peace Peace, Richard 116

7 Tradition and counter-tradition: the radical intelligentsia and classical Russian literature Gary Saul Morson Morson, Gary Saul 141

8 Religious renaissance in the Silver Age Ruth Coates Coates, Ruth 169

Pt. III Themes and Constructs 195

9 The West Vera Tolz Tolz, Vera 197

10 The East David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye van der Oye, David Schimmelpenninck 217

11 The people Derek Offord Offord, Derek 241

12 The intelligentsia and capitalism Wayne Dowler Dowler, Wayne 263

13 Natural science Charles Ellis Ellis, Charles 286

Pt. IV The Afterlife of Classical Thought 309

14 Continuities in the Soviet period Galin Tihanov Tihanov, Galin 311

15 Dialectical materialism and Soviet science in the 1920s and 1930s Daniel Todes Todes, Daniel Nikolai Krementsov Krementsov, Nikolai 340

16 Afterwod James Scanlan Scanlan, James 368

Biographical details of thinkers and writers 380

Selected bibliography 403

Index 426