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Book SynopsisAt a time when tensions between Russia and “the West '' are increasing, this book is very timely, even though, its contents were first broadcast over fifty years ago. It offers a history of Russian culture and its particular trends and tendencies, which are shown to be frequently contradictory and even mutually exclusive. Schmemann argues for the supremacy of culture over political life in determining questions such as the apparent lack of political freedoms, law and order and civil rights in a Russian context.
Table of ContentsForeword HTM Foreword by Maria Vasilyeva
- THE CULTURAL DEBATE IN THE USSR: A PROTEST
- THE DISPUTE OVER CULTURE IN THE SOVIET UNION
- “CULTURE” IN RUSSIAN SELF-IDENTITY
PARADOXES OF RUSSIAN CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT 4. MAXIMALISM
- MINIMALISM
- UTOPIANISM
THE “EXPLOSION” OF RUSSIAN CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- Talk 1
- Talk 2
- Talk 3
- RENUNCIATION OF CULTURE IN THE NAME OF PRAGMATISM
- RENUNCIATION OF CULTURE IN THE NAME OF RELIGION
- RENUNCIATION OF CULTURE IN THE NAME OF SOCIAL UTOPIA
- TOLSTOY AND CULTURE
- DOSTOEVSKY AND RUSSIAN CULTURE
CULTURAL IDENTITY AT “THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY”
- Talk 1
- Talk 2
- ABANDONMENT OF THE MORAL FOUNDATIONS OF CULTURE
- THE INITIAL REACTION TO THE REVOLUTION
- THE ENSLAVEMENT OF CULTURE
CREATIVE RESISTANCE
- Talk 1
- Talk 2
- Talk 3
- THE PAST AND TRADITION
- THE WEST
- TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
- SOCIAL TOPICS
- RELIGIOUS THEMES
- AT A CROSSROADS
ON THE PATH TO SYNTHESIS
- Talk 1
- Talk 2
- CONCLUSION
Notes Index of Names
