Frantsuzskaya revolyutsiya i natsional'noe samosoznanie

Sbornik vklyuchaet v sebya dve stat'i "Russkaya literatura i politika Svyashchennogo soyuza: reaktsiya na politicheskie ubiystva pervoy poloviny XIX veka" i "Yakobity ili yakobintsy? Masonstvo Frantsii i Germanii na russkoy pochve". Pervaya stat'ya rassmatrivaet prichiny i sledstviya dvukh politicheskikh ubiystv - nemetskogo pisatelya Avgusta fon Kotsebu v 1819 g. i naslednika frantsuzskogo prestola gertsoga Berriyskogo v 1820 g. Vtoraya stat'ya raskryvaet prichiny presledovaniya masonskikh lozh v Rossiyskoy imperii pri Ekaterine II i proiskhozhdenie termina "illyuminaty".Obshchey temoy rabot yavlyaetsya izuchenie faktorov,povliyavshikh na vospriyatie liberal'nykh idey, porozhdennykh epokhoy Prosveshcheniya i Velikoy frantsuzskoy revolyutsiey,na razvitiya natsional'nogo samosoznaniya v Rossii, Frantsii i Germanii.