The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater

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How did educated eighteenth-century Russians view society? And how did they reconcile their professed ideals of equality with the monarchical political structures in which they lived? In this highly original study, historian Elise Wirtschafter turns to literary plays to reconstruct the social thinking of the past and to discover how Russians of the Enlightenment understood themselves.