Voltaire’s Russia

window on the East

Author: Carolyn H. Wilberger

Volume: 164

Series: SVEC

Publication Date: 1976

Pages: 287

ISBN: 978-0-7294-0051-0

Price: £35


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Introduction
I. France and Russia, 1700-1750
II. Voltaire, historian of Russia: i. The background
III. Voltaire, historian of Russia: ii. the concepts
IV. Voltaire’s personal contacts with Russia
V. Voltaire and Catherine the Great
VI. Russia: fact, fiction and formulae
VII. The debate: Voltaire versus Rousseau
VIII. The debate: philosophes, westernizers and Slavophiles
Conclusion
Bibliography

Voltaire Foundation

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