Doubly Chosen provides the first detailed study of a unique cultural and religious phenomenon in post-Stalinist Russia—the conversion of thousands of Russian Jewish inte
Both wild and familiar, alien and self, the Russian Cossacks came to represent in nineteenth-century literature their nation’s seemingly endless frontier, strongly influencing the self-image of the Ru
The founder of modern Russian philosophy, Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900) is widely considered its greatest practitioner. Together with Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, he is one of the towering intellectual fig
Recovering the roots of Russian religious philosophyAs Russia entered the modern age in the nineteenth century, many Russian intellectuals combined the study of European philos
This collection of essays on Russian religious thought focuses on the extent to which Russian culture and ideology has been informed by the nation’s roots in Orthodox Christianity.