KONSTANTIN LEONTEV (1831-1891) : A STUDY IN RUSSIAN "HEROIC VITALISM"

New York:Pageant Press. (1967). 1st edition. svii+235pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Book in near fine condition, clean and bright inside and out. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed and lightly soiled, with a small marker slash to front cover but still in very good condition.  It is not price clipped. *from the jacket.."This is the biography of, perhaps, the most interesting Russian conservative thinker. Konstantin Leontev (1831-1891) was the father of Byzantinism, which was a political, religious and social prescription for saving both Russian and the Russians from all the evils that, according to Leontev, democracy was spreading in its wake"