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(1889) [MARC] Author: Georg Brandes Translator: Samuel Coffin Eastman - Tema: Russia
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I.
The Russian Empire.—Extent.—Natural
conditions.—Characteristics of Russia
1
II.
Country and cities.—St. Petersburg and
Moscow.—Homogeneity of nature.—Difference of the seasons
5
III.
The character of the people.—Have the Russian people
originality?—What it consists of in ordinary matters, in the social,
communal, and intellectual domain.—The popular disposition
and popular ideal.—The Black Earth
17
IV.
Life of the Russian people.—No popular education.—Peasants
and workmen.—Superstition and
ignorance.—Submissiveness.—The Russian intelligentia.—“Nigilists” of both
sexes.—Contrast between the standpoint of the intelligent youth and the
common people
35
V.
Literary and artistic festivals.—The official
world.—Ministers.—Censors.—Governors.—Ultra-conservative youth
68
VI.
The élite.—Intellectual aristocracy in Russia and Poland.—The
fundamental interests of Russia are modern.—Contact with the
official circle.—Instability and capriciousness.—Family
dramas.—Russian types of aristocracy.—Two currents in Russian
intellectual life: the European and Slavophilist.—The Russian
dilemma
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