?Probing and thought-wrenching and surprisingly well-written.... The big bonus this book offers laymen and professional educators is the assistance it most assuredly will give them in recognizing the educational climate of their communities.?-The American School Board Journal
That Strakhov was always classified by his contemporaries as a "conservative" gives his life a special significance in Russian intellectual history. In this first full-length intellectual biography in any language of Strakhov, Gerstein provides a guide both to the individual and to the amazingly complex picture of Russian intellectual life in the nineteenth century.
