Outlines of Russian Culture

✍ Scribed by Paul Miliukov (editor); Michael Karpovich (editor); Valentine Ughet (editor); Eleanor Davis (editor)

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 536
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This, the only comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any language, is a publication of unique importance at this time. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development of religion, literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to modern times.

This, the only comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any language, is a publication of unique importance at this time. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development of religion, literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to modern times.

✦ Table of Contents

Author's Preface
Editor's Foreword
Part I. RELIGION AND THE CHURCH
Contents. Part I
I. The Beginnings of Christianity in Russia
II. Nationalization of Faith and Church
III. The Origin of the Schism
IV. Dissent Among the Schismatics and the History of the Priestists
V. The History of the Priestless and the Discord in Their Ranks
VI. The Development of Russian Sectarianism
VII. The Destiny of the Established Church
VIII. The Church During the Revolution
Editor's Postscript
Bibliography
Index
Part II. LITERATURE
Contents. Part II
I. Secularization of Literature
II. The Classical Period
III. From Chekhov to the Revolution
IV. Literature Under the Soviet Regime
V. The Latest Phase
Editor's Postscript
Bibliography
Index
Part IIΙ. ARCHITECTURE, PAINTING, AND MUSIC
Contents. Part III
I. Architecture
II. Painting: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
III. Painting: Since the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
IV. Art in Soviet Russia
V. Music
Editor's Postscript
Bibliography
Index