The icon and the axe : an interpretive history of Russian culture /
by James H. Billington.
- New York : Vintage Books, 1970.
- xviii, 786, xxxiii p. : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
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.