How did educated 18th-century Russians view society? In this study, historian Elise Wirtschafter turns to literary plays to reconstruct the social thinking of the past and to discover how Russians of the Enlightenment understood themselves.
How did enlightened Russians of the eighteenth century understand society? And how did they reconcile their professed ideals of equality and justice with the... Læs mere
Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class... Læs mere
Explores the Russian Enlightenment with reference to the religious Enlightenment of the mid-to late-eighteenth... Læs mere