Description
Book SynopsisThe Russians have undergone an historical development whose direction and destiny fascinates us. This book represents an exploration of the ancient roots and subsequent transformations of their cultural history. It helps readers understand controversial matters of ethnicity and historical identity for this influential, if often unstable, nation.
Trade Review"Milner-Gulland's strength lies in his ability to write with equal facility and conviction about literature and the visual arts, about the fourteenth or the twentieth century, a strength underpinned by a reluctance to compartmentalize the arts with conventional historical periodization ... I can think of few better books for opening doors into a fascinating but often misunderstood world."
SeerTable of ContentsList of Plates.
List of Figures.
Acknow;edgements.
Introduction: Aims and Methods of the Book.
1. Rus as Land and People.
2. Rus as People and as State.
3. Belief Systems.
4. Let us Join Word to Word.
5. Iconic Russia.
Conclusion.
Selective Bibliography.
Chronological Table to 1917.
Index.
