James H Billington
Biographic Data
| ID | 1069494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James H Billington |
| GIVEN NAMES | James H |
| FAMILY NAME | Billington |
| SIGNATURE | BILLINGTON J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Library of Congress |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Religion and Russia's Future
The United States faces significant foreign policy challenges, and several of them involve Russia. U.S. leadership in the 21st century will require a grasp not only of traditional geopolitical preoccupations—resources, weapons, and diplomacy—but also of commerce, communication, and culture. Americans need better and deeper interfaith understanding to comprehend Russia's ongoing spiritual struggle and how religiousfactors contributed to the collap…
Russia in Search of Itself
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
The Face of Russia: Anguish, Aspiration, and Achievement in Russian Culture
The west's stake in Russia's future
The Church in the World: Unexpected Joy
The Librarian of Congress
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Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope
The Crisis of Communism and the Future of Freedom
The author presents how Russia's struggle to find its new identity in the aftermath of Communism's collapse is analogous to America's historical experience of drawing on religious and cultural roots in moving toward democracy. By rediscovering religion and forming voluntary cultural organizations, the Russians are patterning the evolution of the American democracy. Billington highlights Mikhail Gorbachev's crucial role in the early stages of the …
Cyril Black
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A Symposium: What Future Directions for Academic Exchange
Forty years leaves nothing unchanged, and certainly not the Fulbright program. How have its objectives changed, how should they change? Four informed observers and former or present participants in Fulbright and other exchange programs here present their views. Paul Seabury argues for a more sharply focused Fulbright program in an age when it is only a drop in a sea of exchanges, and urges that that focus should serve national interests. James H.…
Realism and Vision in American Foreign Policy
Intellectuals, the Pursuit of Power, and the Good Society
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West …
Christianity in the USSR
“At a time when Russia may be about to change not only its leaders but its generational perspective, there is every reason to assume that those who eventually come to power will be haunted by some of those who ‘prefer to remain anonymous.’ As faith in political religions recedes, interest in authentic transcendence is increasing; and it seems not unreasonable to suggest that Russia's Christian heritage will play a role in its future secular histo…
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
The Semiotics of the Russian Icon
The Crisis of Legitimacy
“These three elements of the American ethos—deep beliefs, pluralist variety, and free democratic institutions—provided the framework for the dynamic, national development during the first 200 years of our history. What seems to be happening now is that both belief and diversity have declined in our society, and the waning of these two... may be undermining, if not destroying, the ability of democracy to survive in America... Paradoxically, I find…
Purpose in the university
“St. Matthew ... tells us about the type of community that Jesus developed out of Daniel's tradition. The scene had moved in less than two centuries from the Seleucid Empire of Daniel's time to the far more universal and pretentious Roman Empire of Caesar Augustus. Those who sought to remain faithful to the righteous God of a captive people argued over how to get involved in the Jerusalem of Jesus' time. “There were the Zealots—the original revol…
The Horizon History of Russia
Force and Counterforce in Eastern Europe
The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture
"A rich and readable introduction to the whole sweep of Russian cultural and intellectual history from Kievan times to the post-Khruschev era."--Library Journal. Illustrations, references, index. From the Trade Paperback edition
The Icon and the Axe: An Interrpretive History of Russian Culture
News of the Profession
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Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West …
Six Views of the Russian Revolution
IF a central problem for any nineteenth-century thinker was that of defining his attitude toward the French Revolution, a central one for contemporary man is his appraisal of the Russian Revolution. The latter problem is even more critical, for nearly one billion people explicitly claim to be heirs and defenders of the Russian Revolution. Forces called into being by the upheaval of 1917 are even more forcefully mobilized and tangibly powerful tha…
A Symposium: What Future Directions for Academic Exchange
Forty years leaves nothing unchanged, and certainly not the Fulbright program. How have its objectives changed, how should they change? Four informed observers and former or present participants in Fulbright and other exchange programs here present their views. Paul Seabury argues for a more sharply focused Fulbright program in an age when it is only a drop in a sea of exchanges, and urges that that focus should serve national interests. James H.…
Realism and Vision in American Foreign Policy
The Renaissance of the Russian Intelligentsia
The Face of Russia: Anguish, Aspiration, and Achievement in Russian Culture
The Librarian of Congress
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Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope
The Semiotics of the Russian Icon
Images of Muscovy
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Mikhailovsky and Russian Populism
The Renaissance of the Russian Intelligentsia
Mikhailovsky and Russian Populism
Road to Revolution
Russia at the Dawn of the Modern Age . George Vernadsky
Roots of the Revolution
Images of Muscovy
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News of the Profession
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Six Views of the Russian Revolution
IF a central problem for any nineteenth-century thinker was that of defining his attitude toward the French Revolution, a central one for contemporary man is his appraisal of the Russian Revolution. The latter problem is even more critical, for nearly one billion people explicitly claim to be heirs and defenders of the Russian Revolution. Forces called into being by the upheaval of 1917 are even more forcefully mobilized and tangibly powerful tha…
The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture
"A rich and readable introduction to the whole sweep of Russian cultural and intellectual history from Kievan times to the post-Khruschev era."--Library Journal. Illustrations, references, index. From the Trade Paperback edition
The Icon and the Axe: An Interrpretive History of Russian Culture
Force and Counterforce in Eastern Europe
Purpose in the university
“St. Matthew ... tells us about the type of community that Jesus developed out of Daniel's tradition. The scene had moved in less than two centuries from the Seleucid Empire of Daniel's time to the far more universal and pretentious Roman Empire of Caesar Augustus. Those who sought to remain faithful to the righteous God of a captive people argued over how to get involved in the Jerusalem of Jesus' time. “There were the Zealots—the original revol…
The Horizon History of Russia
The Crisis of Legitimacy
“These three elements of the American ethos—deep beliefs, pluralist variety, and free democratic institutions—provided the framework for the dynamic, national development during the first 200 years of our history. What seems to be happening now is that both belief and diversity have declined in our society, and the waning of these two... may be undermining, if not destroying, the ability of democracy to survive in America... Paradoxically, I find…
The Semiotics of the Russian Icon
Christianity in the USSR
“At a time when Russia may be about to change not only its leaders but its generational perspective, there is every reason to assume that those who eventually come to power will be haunted by some of those who ‘prefer to remain anonymous.’ As faith in political religions recedes, interest in authentic transcendence is increasing; and it seems not unreasonable to suggest that Russia's Christian heritage will play a role in its future secular histo…
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West …
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
Intellectuals, the Pursuit of Power, and the Good Society
Realism and Vision in American Foreign Policy
A Symposium: What Future Directions for Academic Exchange
Forty years leaves nothing unchanged, and certainly not the Fulbright program. How have its objectives changed, how should they change? Four informed observers and former or present participants in Fulbright and other exchange programs here present their views. Paul Seabury argues for a more sharply focused Fulbright program in an age when it is only a drop in a sea of exchanges, and urges that that focus should serve national interests. James H.…
Cyril Black
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Crisis of Communism and the Future of Freedom
The author presents how Russia's struggle to find its new identity in the aftermath of Communism's collapse is analogous to America's historical experience of drawing on religious and cultural roots in moving toward democracy. By rediscovering religion and forming voluntary cultural organizations, the Russians are patterning the evolution of the American democracy. Billington highlights Mikhail Gorbachev's crucial role in the early stages of the …
Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope
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