Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism

Peter K. Christoff was, until his retirement in 1977, professor of Russian history at San Francisco State University. He was visiting professor at Cornell University, Mills College, Stanford University, and the University of Leiden; a Fulbright recipient; and a research fellow with the Kennan Institute and the U.S.-Soviet Union Cultural Exchange Program (IREX).

• Introduction -- The Making of a Slavophil -- The 1820s: Family and Tutors -- The 1830s: Moscow University -- The Early 1840s: The Dissertation -- Early 1840s: The Struggle with Hegelianism -- Middle 1840s: In the Slavophil Camp -- Middle 1840s: In Government Service -- End of the 1840s: Reviews, Riga, and Prison -- The 1850s: The Slavophils on Science, Technology, and Farming—Koshelev -- The 1850s: Samarin’s Studies and Emancipation of the Serfs -- From Slavophil Orthodoxy to Reform -- Spirit and Meaning of Orthodoxy -- Rationalism, Materialism, and Slavophilism -- National Spirit (Culture): Russia and the West -- Memorandum (Zapiska) on the Emancipation of the Serfs -- The Drive for Emancipation -- Slavophil Collaborators and the Edict of 1861 -- Officiai Nationality -- The “Native Soil” Movement and Pan-Slavism -- Conclusion