How Russia Shaped the Modern World : : From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism / / Steven G. Marks.
In this sweeping history, Steven Marks tells the fascinating story of how Russian figures, ideas, and movements changed our world in dramatic but often unattributed ways. On Europe's periphery, Russia was an early modernizing nation whose troubles stimulated intellectuals to develop radical and...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 27 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- CHAPTER 1. Organizing Revolution: The Russian Terrorists
- CHAPTER 2. Kropotkin's Anti-Darwinian Anarchism
- CHAPTER 3. Dostoevsky's Messianic Irrationalism
- CHAPTER 4. Tolstoy and the Nonviolent Imperative
- CHAPTER 5. Destroying the Agents of Modernity: Russian Anti-Semitism
- CHAPTER 6. Conveying Higher Truth Onstage: Ballet and Theater
- CHAPTER 7. Abstract Art and the Regeneration of Mankind
- CHAPTER 8. The Dream of Communism
- CHAPTER 9. Communism and the New Forms of Dictatorship
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index