Cultural Gradient

Catherine Evtuhov is associate professor of history at Georgetown University. Stephen Kotkin is associate professor of history at Princeton University.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 History of IdeasChapter 3 Translatio Imperii and Translatio Religionis: The Geography of Salvation in Russian and American Messianic ThinkingChapter 4 The Religious Westernism of Ivan GagarinChapter 5 Guizot in RussiaChapter 6 Alexander Herzen's "Russian Socialism"Chapter 7 The Problem of "Russia and the West" in Russian Historiography (with special reference to M.I. Rostovstev and P.N Miliukov)Chapter 8 William James through a Russian Prism: The Case of the Moscow God-SeekersPart 9 Regimes and Political PracticeChapter 10 Crosscurrents of French, Austiran, and Russian Security Policing, 1750-1990Chapter 11 Poland between East and West: Law, Order, and Political Policing in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815-1914Chapter 12 Terror in Pravda1917-1939: All the News that was Fit to PrintChapter 13 Modern Times: the Soviet Union and the Interwar ConjunctureChapter 14 Persistence of the Ethic of Soviet Socialism in Late Twentieth Century RussiaPart 15 The Contemporary Scene: Politics and IntellectualsChapter 16 Russia, Europe, and "Western Civilization"Chapter 17 A Critique of the Concept of GlobalizationChapter 18 Scenes from the Polish HellChapter 19 Poland, Europe, and RussiaChapter 20 Foxes into Hedgehogs: Berlin and TolstoyChapter 21 Martin Malia and the Understanding of Russia

A welcome addition to the study of intellectual history. It engages many of the subtle complexities involved in not only understanding Europe's past, but also—and pertinently so—in reflecting upon her future.