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Record Nr.

UNISA996248203503316

Titolo

Readings in Russian civilization . Volume I Russia before Peter the Great, 900-1799 / / edited, with introductory notes, by Thomas Riha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1969

ISBN

1-282-07015-0

9786612070150

0-226-71843-3

Edizione

[2d ed., rev.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RihaThomas

Disciplina

914.7/03

914.703

947

947.08

Soggetti

HISTORY / General

Russia Social conditions

Russia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 THE RUSSIAN PRIMARY CHRONICLE; 2 MEDIEVAL RUSSIAN LAWS; 3 THE CHRONICLE OF NOVGOROD; 4 THE DIG AT NOVGOROD. VALENTINE YANINE; 5 RUSSIAN EPICS; 6 FEUDALISM IN RUSSIA. GEORGE VERNADSKY, L.V. CHEREPNIN; 7 THE KURBSKY-IVAN THE TERRIBLE CORRESPONDENCE; 8 IVAN GROZNY. ROBERT WIPPER; 9 THE DEBATE ON IVAN THE TERRIBLE IN 1956; 10 THE LIFE OF ST. SERGIUS. ST. EPIPHANIUS; 11 AVVAKUM'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY; 12 THE RUSSIAN CHURCH SCHISM. SERGE ZENKOVSKY; 13 THE LAW CODE OF 1649

14 MUSCOVITE-WESTERN COMMERCIAL RELATIONS15 THE MONGOL IMPACT ON RUSSIA. GEORGE VERNADSKY; 16 THE FRONTIER. B. H. SUMNER; 17 THE PROBLEM OF OLD RUSSIAN CULTURE. GEORGES FLOROVSKY, NIKOLAY ANDREYEV, JAMES BILLINGTON; CHRONOLOGY; CORRELATION TABLES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

""This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is



the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which 2 appear in English for the first time. In the second volume there are 6 new items; all of them appear in English for the first time. The third volume has undergone the greatest revision, with 11 new items, of which 6 are newly translated from the Russian. It is the editor's hope that items left out in the new edition will not be