Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia - Softcover

Chamberlain, Lesley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843542862 ISBN 13: 9781843542865

Verlag: Atlantic Books, 2005

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Book by LESLEY CHAMBERLAIN

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"'Motherland is a valiant, fascinating and intellectually rigorous attempt to make sense of an extremely difficult subject.' T. J. Binyon, Sunday Telegraph 'Splendid... the pages that Chamberlain devotes to Lenin's dismal monograph are among the sharpest and most keenly felt in the book.' Jonathan Derbyshire, Daily Telegraph; 'Informative and stimulating... Chamberlain can be both enlightening and original... Motherland is well worth reading.' Oliver Ready, Moscow Times; 'Ambitious, challenging and persuasive... Chamberlain excavates whole generations of thinkers in a compelling manner... Meticulously researched and clearly argued.' Scotland on Sunday"

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In this "lucid primer of Russian thought" (The Times Literary Supplement), Lesley Chamberlain finds that during the last two centuries Russian intellectuals have asked two fundamental questions, "what makes a good man?" and "what is the right way to live?" The nineteenth-century ideal of a happy man living in a just society became, in Russia, a quest to effect the wholesale transformation of society. Chamberlain shows how this moral passion, manifesting itself in philosophy and literature, existed in both pre- and post-revolutionary Russia. She reveals that 1917 did not represent the watershed we once thought, and shows how the dreams of a plain and simple life reached its negative apotheosis under Lenin. In Motherland, Lesley Chamberlain has produced a radical new interpretation of Russian intellectual history that, finally, gives a glimpse in to the soul of that singular country.

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• Verlag: Atlantic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1843542862
• ISBN 13: 9781843542865
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352