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Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS George Vernadsky. Russian Historiography: A History. Edited by Sergei Pushkarev. Translated by Nickolas Lupinin. Belmont, Mass.: Nordland Publishing Company, 1978. iv, 575 pp. $35.00. At the time of his death in 1973 George Vernadsky was writing a history of histori- ography in Russia, sections of which had already begun to appear in the Zapiski russkoi akademicheskoi gruppy vSShA. In tribute to his memory the editors of that journal pub- lished the remaining sections of the study which Vernadsky had written posthumously, and asked two scholars to complete from Vernadsky's outlines two chapters unwritten at his death. The final installment was accompanied by a bibliography of Vernadsky's works and an appreciative essay, both by Nikolay Andreyev. (See Zapiski... , 5-9 [1971-75].) All of this material has now been translated into English and made available to a wider public. Consequently, this heterogeneous book consists of a "Preface" by the editor Sergei Pushkarev (pp. i-iv), Vernadsky's survey of historiography from the eighteenth century to 1920, including the first two entries on historians of the Russian Orthodox Church and a completed chapter on archeologists and historians of art (pp. 1-378, 448-84), the bulk of the chapter on Church history http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Russian History , Volume 6 (1): 110 – Jan 1, 1979

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Brill
Copyright
© 1979 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0094-288X
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1876-3316
DOI
10.1163/187633179X00078
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BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS George Vernadsky. Russian Historiography: A History. Edited by Sergei Pushkarev. Translated by Nickolas Lupinin. Belmont, Mass.: Nordland Publishing Company, 1978. iv, 575 pp. $35.00. At the time of his death in 1973 George Vernadsky was writing a history of histori- ography in Russia, sections of which had already begun to appear in the Zapiski russkoi akademicheskoi gruppy vSShA. In tribute to his memory the editors of that journal pub- lished the remaining sections of the study which Vernadsky had written posthumously, and asked two scholars to complete from Vernadsky's outlines two chapters unwritten at his death. The final installment was accompanied by a bibliography of Vernadsky's works and an appreciative essay, both by Nikolay Andreyev. (See Zapiski... , 5-9 [1971-75].) All of this material has now been translated into English and made available to a wider public. Consequently, this heterogeneous book consists of a "Preface" by the editor Sergei Pushkarev (pp. i-iv), Vernadsky's survey of historiography from the eighteenth century to 1920, including the first two entries on historians of the Russian Orthodox Church and a completed chapter on archeologists and historians of art (pp. 1-378, 448-84), the bulk of the chapter on Church history

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Published: Jan 1, 1979

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