Russian Literature 

TL;DR: The authors showed that Russian writers frequently found it necessary to attack atheism, godlessness, and unbelief, drawing heavily on Catholic and Protestant apologetic tracts, and they taught Russian readers to beware of the dangers lurking in the philosophes' writings.

TL;DR: Paperno argues that the story of the Herzen family drama turned into a paradigmatic text, or institution, of Russian intelligentsia culture: the intimacy-history connection became both publicly observable and reproducible as discussed by the authors.