Item details: The icon and the axe : an interpretive history of Russian culture - 48424600

The icon and the axe : an interpretive history of Russian culture

text The icon and the axe : an interpretive history of Russian culture

Billington, James H.

Summary: Interpretive history of Russian thought and culture designed to provide new information and interpretation and not merely to codify an already established consesus. The period under discussion is the last six hundred years, during which time Russi... Read more

Contents: I. Background -- II. The confrontation -- III. The century of schism -- IV. The century of aristocratic culture -- V. On to new shores -- VI. The uncertain colossus.

Format: text

Description: xviii, 786, xxxiii pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf 1966

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