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The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture

by James H. Billington

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From the Library of Anne Rice

This copy is from the personal library of the legendary author. View the entire collection here. Condition Notes: New York: Vintage Books, (1970) Trade paperback. Anne Rice's copy, with her handwritten library label taped to the spine. On the front cover she has written: Use for Armand" with the date 12/97. The half title page has been dated by her as "July 19, 1997" and inscribed: "Very / wonderful / book - ARMAND" The first 95 pages have been heavily annotated by her, and numerous color tabs affixed to the fore edge & top edge. A unique copy, obviously used for research for the 1998 publication of "The Vampire Armand" KB/kb

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Publisher Comments:

"A rich and readable introduction to the whole sweep of Russian cultural and intellectual history from Kievan times to the post-Khruschev era." - Library Journal. Illustrations, references, index.

Synopsis:

'...I cannot begin to touch on the riches of this book. It is packed with detail without being dry, vivid without being 'colorful, ' and wide-ranging without crying up special theories. This is, moreover, a cultural history in which is implicit the knowledge that ideas do not follow simply from other ideas, that cultural history interprets and modifies political and economic history but rides on their currents and is swayed by their events.

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ISBN:

9780394708461

Subtitle:

An Interpretative History of Russian Culture

Author:

Billington, James H.

Author:

Billington, James H.

Author:

Billington, James

Publisher:

Vintage

Subject:

Russian

Subject:

Europe - General

Subject:

Russia (pre & post Soviet Union)

Subject:

Soviet Union

Subject:

Russia

Subject:

Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union

Subject:

Travel-Russia

Copyright:

1966

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series:

Vintage

Publication Date:

19701212

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Y

Pages:

880

Dimensions:

8.03x5.26x1.52 in. 1.42 lbs.

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Product details 880 pages Vintage Books USA - 2012-02-02 English 9780394708461 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Ingram, '...I cannot begin to touch on the riches of this book. It is packed with detail without being dry, vivid without being 'colorful, ' and wide-ranging without crying up special theories. This is, moreover, a cultural history in which is implicit the knowledge that ideas do not follow simply from other ideas, that cultural history interprets and modifies political and economic history but rides on their currents and is swayed by their events.