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Contents
Czech Perspectives on the Cultural and Spiritual Roots of Russia
Scene 1 – Russia before Russia: Antique Cultures along the Black Sea Coast
Scene 2 – Viking Rus and Germanic Culture
Scene 3 – Slavic Rus and Paganism
Scene 4 – Kievan Rus and Byzantine Christianity
Scene 5 – Mongolian Rus and Eurasianism
Scene 6 – Muscovite Rus and “Third Rome”
Scene 7 – Muscovite Spiritual Counterculture I: Nonpossessors, Orthodox Humanists, and Holy Fools
Scene 8 – Red Rus, Novgorodian Rus, and the “Window to Europe”
Scene 9 – Lithuanian Rus, the Russian Reformation, and the Russian Baroque
Scene 10 – Muscovite Spiritual Counterculture II: The Old Believers
Scene 11 – Petersburg Rus and Russian Secularization
Scene 12 – Ukrainian Rus and White Rus
Scene 13 – Jewish Rus
Scene 14 – Catholic Rus
Scene 15 – The Orthodox Restoration
Scene 16 – Orthodox Romanticism and Pan-Slavism
Scene 17 – Orthodox Reformism
Scene 18 – Revolutionary Rus and the Piety of the Godless
Scene 19 – Soviet Rus and the Renewal of the Orthodox Trinity
New Struggles of the Old Russes
Bibliography
Index