Andrey V. Ivanov’s "A Spiritual Revolution. The Impact of Reformation
and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia" (University of Wisconsin Press,
2020) is a work on the impact of the Reformation and the Enlightenment
across Russian imperial lands during the long 18th century. Expanding on
the narrative schemes proposed by Georges Florovsky (1893–1979) and
adopted by Gregory Freeze, "A Spiritual Revolution" argues that Reform
paved the way for Enlightenment. Both Reform and Enlightenment
constituted stage posts in Russian imperial modernization. At the same
time the Russian 18th century broke with previous patterns of thought
and ideologies. Ivanov’s work therefore challenges the conception that
religious developments in the Russian Empire were of a different kind
to those taking place further West.