Investigates the question of Russian identity, spanning a territory, centuries, and a variety of political, social, and economic structures. This book places emphases on the struggle against the steppe peoples, Orthodox Christianity, autocratic monarchy, and Westernization.
"In this new book, Nicholas Riasanovsky, one of the foremost Russian historians, applies a lifetime of study to answer a question that has puzzled historians, politicians, and nationalists for centuries: what does it mean to be Russian? As he shows, the answer to this question h…
Nicholas Riasanovsky investigates the question of Russian identity, looking at changes and continues over a huge territory, many centuries, and a variety of political, social and economic structures.
"The best work of an always compelling, often controversial and absolutley essential philosopher of the American experience, modernity, and the human condition."
"The best work of an always compelling, often controversial and absolutely essential philosopher of the American experience, modernity, and the human condition."
"The best work of an always compelling, often controversial and absolutely essential philosopher of the American experience, modernity, and the human condition."
Tradition, by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. Intent on questioning the meaning of the antitraditionalist impulse in today's society, Shils argues here that the tendency to dist…
