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Masonskii Orden i Russkoe Obshchestvo v XVIII Veke
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Working the Rough Stone: Freemasonry and society in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2006 224 p Serie: Historia Rossica Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 5867934780 Language: Russian
The Masons in Russia, according to the author, were neither truth seekers nor designers of a new political system. Entering a Masonic society for most of Russians was more like joining the elite, the union of those who are to bring order in unstructured Russian society with their own moral example. Douglas Smith offers this view on Russian Masonic lodges basing on comparison them with European lodges and their history. The author also studies motives and manifestations of masonphobia in the 18th century. Comments, bibliographical references, name index.
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