Download or read book Russia's Path toward Enlightenment written by Gary M. Hamburg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia’s path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great’s opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Hamburg shows why Russia’s enlightenment constituted a precondition for the explosive emergence of nineteenth-century writers such as Fedor Dostoyevsky and Vladimir Soloviev.