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 ��ybrid Slavonic��of the late seventeenth century through the debates between ��rchaists and
innovators��of the early nineteenth century. An essential addition to the library of any Russian scholar.
