TY  - BOOK
AU  - Billington,James H.
TI  - The icon and the axe: an interpretive history of Russian culture 
SN  - 9780394708461
AV  - DK32.7 .B5 1970
U1  - 914.703 BI.I 1970 
PY  - 1970///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1966; Includes bibliographical references and index; Background: Kiev ; The forest -- The confrontation: The Muscovite ideology ; The coming of the West -- The century of schism: The split within ; The Westward turn -- The century of aristocratic culture: The troubled enlightenment ; The anti-enlightenment ; The "cursed questions" -- On to new shores: The turn to social thought ; The agony of populist art ; New perspectives of the waning century -- Uncertain colossus: Crescendo ; The Soviet era ; Fresh ferment ; The irony of Russian history
ER  -