Motherland : a philosophical history of Russia
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Motherland : a philosophical history of Russia
Atlantic Books, 2005
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"First published in hardback in Great Britain in 2004 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd. This paperback edition, with corrections, published by Atlantic Books in 2005" --T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-316) and index
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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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