Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter convincingly argues that the Russian Enlightenment is best described as a lived Enlightenment-the commitment to and the practice of living an enlightened life.Wirtschafter examines the Russian Enlightenment with reference to the monarchy (or state), the Russian Orthodox Church, and the educated service classes.Russia's Lived Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Centuryshows that, for the monarchy, Enlightenment principles provided effective mechanisms and ideological justifications for state building, resource mobilization, and the imposition of social control. For the Church, which prior to the second quarter of the 18th century remained Russia's primary center of higher learning, Enlightenment thought introduced new forms of philosophical and scientific knowledge that had to be brought into the fold of Orthodox religious belief. For Russia's educated classes, which remained service classes until the second quarter of the 19th century, Enlightenment culture and sociability became vehicles for developing the independent moral voice of an emergent public (publika) or civil society of the educated (obshchestvo). The book reveals that representatives of the monarchy, Church, and educated classes contributed to the Enlightenment in different ways, including the spread of ideas identified with Enlightenment thought in Central and Western Europe. It also effectively contends that Russian enlighteners sought to promote imperial greatness, reform human behavior, and encourage material, social, and cultural progress, without seeking to abandon tradition or overturn political and social arrangements in the process.
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Russia's Lived Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Century
Elise Kimerling Wirtschafteris Emeritus Professor at California State Polytechnic University, USA. She is the author of several books, includingFrom Victory to Peace: Russian Diplomacy after Napoleon(2021),From Serf to Russian Soldier(2016),andReligion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia(2013).
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