This work is the fourth volume of Peter Christoff’s study of nineteenth-century Russian Slavophilism, which grew out of vigorous and prolonged debates between the Slavophils and proponents of Slavophilism’s principal ideological rival, Westernism, in the mid-nineteenth century. As the names indicate, the Westerners looked to the West for the solution to Russia’s political, social, and economic problems. The Slavophils, well-to-do members of the Russian gentry who knew the West well, chose to look inward. Both Slavophils and Westerners favored emancipation of the Russian serfs, which was...
This work is the fourth volume of Peter Christoff’s study of nineteenth-century Russian Slavophilism, which grew out of vigorous and prolonged debat...
