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This paper is devoted to the influence of Chodasevič’s poetic technique on Mandel′štam's poetry. We make an attempt to analyze Mandel′štam's lateNovye stichi(“Ne govori nikomu … ”, “Kuda kak strašno nam s toboj … ” and “My s toboj na kuchne posidim … ”), which are connected to each other through the theme of fear. From the point of view of the poetic technique, these texts are also connected to each other through the literary device of the unexpected twist of meaning, which was associated with Chodasevič’s lyrics in Mandel′štam's consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By obliterating the barrier that had separated Russian scholarship from practical applications, World War I recast the relationship of universities and the government while strengthening academia's bonds with bourgeois capital and democratic republicanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses a debate that preoccupied the Russian press in the winter of 1878/9. Writers, journalists and scientists discussed whether mathematics could explain spiritualist séance phenomena. At its core, this was an assessment of social change and a debate about the ambiguity of modern life. While spiritualists hoped to bridge the divide between science and religion, subjectivity and objectivity, their opponents feared that séance phenomena and modern mathematics undermined a rationalist world-view that was endowed with reliability and universal truth. That no agreement could be reached indicates that the post-reform public sphere had become truly pluralist and modern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article constitutes an attempt, previously not undertaken in the critical literature, to collate all the known information concerning Nikolai Gogol''s work in 1833-1834 on a history of Ukraine, and, based on this evidence, to formulate a reasoned conclusion as to how much of the history he might have completed beyond what purports to be the introductory chapter, initially published under the title "Fragment from a History of Little Russia" and later as "A Glance at the Composition of Little Russia." Gogol''s original plan was to write a history of Ukraine from the time southern Rus' separated from the northern as a consequence of the conquest of Kyiv by the Mongols in 1240 and later the absorption of Kyivan Rus' by Lithuania in the mid-14th century. The "Fragment" is almost certainly the only part of it, as per this plan, ever written, and is itself probably unfinished, because the writer broke off work on it when he redesigned the history, intending now to begin with the early history of the Eastern Slavs and the founding of the Kyivan state. A two-page prose fragment found among what is represented in the 1937-1952 Academy edition of Gogol''s complete collected works as the writer's notes on Russian history, represents the new beginning, but this breaks off as well, and what would have constituted its continuation is still in the form of an outline and notes, so that, logically, no continuation of either beginning can be expected to surface. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the development of conservatism in Russia in the 19th century, including its diverse ideological origins. Links between conservatism and nationalism are discussed, and Russian conservatism is compared with its counterpart in Europe. Recent historiography surrounding Russian conservatism is briefly reviewed, and 19th-century trends in Russian political thought are then discussed, with the Decembrist uprising of 1925 seen as a turning point between the influence of progressivism and the ascendancy of conservatism.

Georgii Plekhanov is often credited with being the 'father of Russian Marxism'. He was not, however, the first Russian Marxist. That distinction belongs to Nikolai Ivanovich Sieber (Ziber), whose dissertation on Marx's economics appeared in 1871, the year before the Russian translation of Das Kapital, and introduced Plekhanov's generation of Russian revolutionaries to Marxist ideas. Sieber's work was then given a prominent endorsement in the second edition of Das Kapital, wherein Marx praised the depth of understanding Sieber had displayed of his economic theory. In view of this, one might consider that Sieber should be regarded as a dominant figure in the history of Marxism in Russia but, in fact, he is seldom mentioned by historians - and, when he is, it is generally cursorily and dismissively. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to examine the interrelationship of Sieber and Marx and to place Sieber's writings in the context of the emergence of the Russian conception of Marxism at the end of the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the cultural conflict in early 19th century Russia illustrated by the dismissal in 1810 of the Mason Ignaz Aurelius Fessler from the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy and in 1816 of the philosopher Johann Schad from Khar'kov University. Reasons why educational authorities deemed the two ex-monks to be subversive; Change in the reform plans of Tsar Alexander I between 1801 and 1825.

Describes the public reaction generated by the publication in 1909 of `Landmarks,' a collection of essays addressed to the Russian intelligentsia of that time. Criticisms, positive reactions and outright defamation bestowed on the book and its authors; Book's analysis of the system of values and ideals on which the Russian intelligentsia had lived for more than half a century; Excerpts and analyses.