Russia's Path toward Enlightenment

This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russias path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Greats opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Hamburg shows why Russias enlightenment constituted a precondition for the explosive emergence of nineteenth-century writers such as Fedor Dostoyevsky and Vladimir Soloviev.