Byzantium or Democracy?: Kondakov's Legacy in Emigration: The Institutum Kondakovianum and Andre Grabar, 1925-1952 [Italian]

by Adrien Palladino and Ivan Foletti

The notion of Byzantium has for centuries been associated with autocracy, totalitarianism, and suppression of freedom. It thus became the favored model for the Russian autocracy. In the nineteenth-century, Russian scholars working under Tsarist regimes were, either explicitly or tacitly, condoning and even supporting the ruling autocracy. After the Revolution of 1917, however, many of these effectively complicit intellectuals left Russia for Western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Italian
• ISBN: 8833134962
• ISBN13: 9788833134963
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Viella Editrice
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.