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Arc of utopia : the beautiful story of the Russian Revolution / Lesley Chamberlain.
Author
Chamberlain, Lesley
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017.
©2017
Description
220 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
DK189.2 .C43 2017
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Subject(s)
Philosophy, German
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18th century
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Influence
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Slavic civilization
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Arts, Russian
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19th century
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Soviet Union
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History
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Revolution, 1917-1921
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Philosophy
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Soviet Union
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History
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Revolution, 1917-1921
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Art and the revolution
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France
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History
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Revolution, 1789-1799
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Influence
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Russia
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Intellectual life
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1801-1917
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Summary note
"The French Revolution of 1789 had grand humanitarian aims that would one day inspire the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Russians took the French revolutionary agenda and reinforced it with sturdy German philosophy to form a beautiful vision in which remnants of theology combined with the power of art as a force for change. The Arc of Utopia offers a fresh look at the German philosophical origins of the Russian Revolution. Lesley Chamberlain relates how the influential German philosophers Kant, Schiller and Hegel were dazzled by contemporary events in Paris, and how art and philosophy exploded on the streets of Russia, with a long-repressed people uniquely reinventing the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity. Some of the greatest names of nineteenth-century Russia, from Alexander Herzen to Mikhail Bakunin, Ivan Turgenev to Fyodor Dostoevsky, defined their visions for Russia in relation to the German enthusiasm for revolutionary France. Published to tie in with the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, The Arc of Utopia provides an original view of the Revolution that links the final upheaval of October 1917 with an astonishing period in art, street drama and poetry."--Jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index.
Contents
Author's Note
Glossary of Names
Introduction : The Arc of Utopia
The Wisest Man
Good Men, Drama and Dialectic
Excitement in the Seminary
Reason, Fashion and Romance among the Russians
Philosophy as Dream-history
Bakunin on Fire
A Land of Hamlets and Don Quixotes
The Chattering Classes and the Moment of Grace
'The Triumph of the Movement which is Dear to Me'
'We Want All to be Fulfilled at Once' : The Great Uprising of Art and Creativity
Afterword : 'The Unity of Great Ideas and Strong Feelings'
A Note on Further Reading.
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ISBN
9781780238524 ((hardcover))
1780238525 ((hardcover))
OCLC
1005493380
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