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How Russia shaped the modern world : from art to anti-semitism, ballet to bolshevism / Steven G. Marks.
This sweeping history tells the story of how Russian figures, ideas, and movements changed our world in dramatic but often unattributed ways. It points out that Russia gave the world new ways of writing novels, and launched trends in ballet, theatre and art that revolutionized cultural life.
Record details
- ISBN: 0691118450
- ISBN: 9780691118451
- ISBN: 0691096848
- ISBN: 9780691096841
- Physical Description: xii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: 1st pbk. print.
- Publisher: Princeton, N.J. ; Princeton University Press, 2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in hardcover, 2003. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-379) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Organizing revolution : the Russian terrorists -- Kropotkin's anti-Darwinism anarchism -- Dostoevsky's messianic irrationalism -- Tolstoy and the nonviolent imperative -- Destroying the agents of modernity : Russian anti-Semitism -- Conveying higher truth onstage : ballet and theater -- Abstract art and the regeneration of mankind -- The dream of communism -- Communism and the new forms of dictatorship. |
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Subject: | Russia > Civilization > 1801-1917. Soviet Union > Civilization. Civilization, Modern > Russian influences. |