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(Series IV) Professor ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE
'Russia'
Tonight Professor Toynbee continues his task of explaining the ' make-up ' of modern Russia. Last week he examined the political effect on Russia of its contact with the alien civilisation of Europe, from the days of Peter the Great onward. He turns now to the spiritual and artistic effects of this European contact, variously shown in the work of Pushkin, Gogol, Andreiev, Turgenev, Tchekov, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, and Gorki. These artists and ' intellectuals' lived and worked in vivid contrast with their background, the Russia of brandy, blood and dirt that the masses knew : but the soul of Russia is more easily understood through study of their work.

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