The Modern Language Review, July 1st, 2006
Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. By WALTER G. MOSS. London: Anthem. 2002. vi+295 pp. 18.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-89885-559-5.
This book emerged from a course first taught by the author in the late 1980s. It aims to provide an overview of the era of Alexander II that gives approximately equal weight to biography and intellectual history (with background on high politics and international relations thrown in at appropriate moments). Walter G. Moss contends, with much reason, that ideas can be made vivid for students and general readers by examining the lives and ...
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