ment
Catholics Pietists Orthodox The Legacy
3.The 'Cursed Ques
tions'
The Flight to Philoso phy
The Meaning of His tory
The Prophetic Role of Art
The Missing Madonna
The 'Hamlet Question'
V. On to New Shores
The Turn to Social Thought
The Agony of Populist Art
New Perspectives of the Waning Century Constitutional Liberal ism
Dialectical Material ism Mystical Idealism
VI. The Uncertain Colossus
1.Crescendo
Prometheanism
Sensualism
A pocalypticism
2.The Soviet Era
The Leninist Legacy The Revenge of Muscovy
?1?
475 478 492 504 519 524
532
3.Fresh Ferment
The Reprise of Pasternak New Voices
4.The Irony of Russian
History
Bibliography
References
Index follows page
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Map : Modern European Russia
Forms of the Virgin
Following page 105 I 'Vladimir Mother of God,' early twelfth century, Constantinople Tret'iakov Gallery, Moscow
II 'Virgin and Child Rejoicing,' mid-sixteenth-century painting from the upper Volga region, probably Kostroma Tret'iakov Gallery, Moscow
IIIVirgin and Christ from
the central triptych
(deesis) of a sixteenth-
century icon screen
Personal Collection
of P. D. Korin, Moscow
IV'Petersburg, 1918' (pop
ularly known as 'Our
Lady of Petersburg') by
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin,
