Working the Rough Stone

by Douglas Smith

Using a wealth of archival sources previously unavailable to scholars, Smith examines the forces that attracted many social and intellectual leaders of eighteenth-century Russia to Freemasonry as an instrument for change and progress. By "working the rough stone" of their inner thoughts and feelings, such men sought to become champions of moral enlightenment and to create a vision of social action that could bring about change without challenging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087580246X
• ISBN13: 9780875802466
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher