Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia

One of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia, Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia now brings an essential work on the genesis of modern Russian culture to a wider, English-speaking audience. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was key to the formation of a modern secular culture, and Zhivov's book traces the growth of a vernacular language from the "hybrid Slavonic" of the late seventeenth century through the debates between "archaists and innovators" of the early nineteenth century. An essential addition to the library of any Russian scholar.

Viktor Zhivov is Professor at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Razyskaniia v oblasti istorii i predystorii russkoi kul’tury. 2002, Ocherki istoricheskoi morfologii russkogo iazyka XVII - XVIII veka. 2004, and other books on history of Slavic literary languages, East Slavic and Byzantine cultural history, old and 18th century Russian literature .