Product Description: This pioneering study shows for the first time the extent and diversity of the impact of Nietzschean ideas on Soviet literature and culture. It examines the Nietzschean roots of early Soviet literature, theater and architecture, Soviet political culture, the work of disaffected writers and thinkers and that of intellectuals of the non-Russian nationalities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Nazis' use and misuse of Nietzsche is well known. The Superman, the "will to power," Nietzsche's equation of bourgeois democracy and decadence, and his denigration of reason were staples of Nazi propaganda. Communists also used and misused Nietzsche, but that fact is largely unknown because Soviet propagandists invoked reason and labeled Nietzsche the "philosopher of fascism," even while covertly appropriating his ideas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Soviet policy imposed so strict a ban on Nietzschean thought that canonical east European writers were routinely "de-Nietzschefied" so that Friedrich Nietzsche's influence on their work was either denied or ignored. Since the collapse of Soviet Communism, reintegrating Nietzsche into east European cultural history has become the task at hand...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A pioneering, richly interdisciplinary volume, this is the first work in any language on a subject that has long attracted interest in the West and is now of consuming interest in Russia itself. The cultural ferment unleashed by the collapse of the Soviet Union reawakened interest in the study of Russian religion and spirituality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The spiritual revival that is sweeping the Soviet Union today had its genesis in the religious renaissance of the early 20th century. In both cases, it was lay intellectuals, disenchanted with simplistic positivism and materialism, who adapted Russian orthodoxy to modern life...read more