- Prologue: In Scythia
- Introduction: The Russian Riddle
- 1. Russia as Enlightened Despotism: 1700–1815
- The Birth of the Concert of Europe
- Russia as Old Regime
- The Ottoman Control
- Russia as Philosophic Fable
- Exegi Monumentum Aereum Perennum I
- The Legend Redux
- Enlightenment and the Police State
- The Twilight of the Old Regime
- 2. Russia as Oriental Despotism: 1815–1855
- Europe as the Two and the Three
- Culture and the German Sonderweg
- The Romantic Chiaroscuro
- The New Historical Canon
- A Fractured Image
- The Russian Sonderweg
- Russia Outcast
- 3. Russia as Europe Regained: 1855–1914
- Obverse: The Curve of Convergence
- Russia Reformed
- Mitteleuropa
- Russia for Liberals
- Russia for Socialists
- Russia for Nationalists
- Reverse: Fin de Siècle and Russian Soul
- Art for Art’s Sake
- From Symbolism to Modernism
- The Russian Prophets
- Soul for Export
- The Roots of Aesthetic Nihilism
- 4. War and Revolution: 1914–1917
- The Hinge of Darkness
- A Dawn amidst the Night?
- The Socialist Riddle
- Socialism as an Ideal Type, or, the DNA of a Unicorn
- Marxist Theory
- Leninist Practice
- 5. Through the Soviet-Russian Looking-Glass, and What the West Found There: 1917–1991
- Prologue: In the Eye of the Beholder
- Heads, the Experiment: 1917–1945
- The Ride of the Troika
- Exegi Monumentum II
- The Fascist Counterpoint
- Where the Twain Meet
- The Ride of Rozinante
- International Class Struggle
- Tails, The Empire: 1945–1991
- The Cold War
- Kaleidoscopic Vision
- Khrushshev’s Thaw
- The Road to Dètente
- The Waltz of the Models
- Voices Off
- Over and Out: Gorbachev
- Conclusion
- Whither the Troika Now?
- And Whither the Spectre?
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


Russia under Western Eyes
From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
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Publication Date: 04/07/2000