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Creating the Empress
\"In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works from this period, particularly the main Classical myths associated with Catherine (Amazon, Astraea, Pallas Athena, Felicitas, Fortune, etc.), as well as how these Classical subjects affirmed imperial ideology and the monarch’s power. Each chapter of the book revolves around the major events of Catherine’s reign (and some major literary works) that give a broad framework to discuss the evolution of important recurring motifs and images.\"
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Vladimir Putin : Russian leader
\"Learn about Putin's early life, how he became one of Russia's strongest presidents, and what has made him so controversial in current politics.\"--Publisher's website.
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Work Flows
Work Flows investigates the
emergence of \"flow\" as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor
culture since 1870. Maya Vinokour frames concern with
fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structures-whether
that verticality derives from the state, as in Stalin's Soviet
Union and present-day Russia, or from the proliferation of
corporate monopolies, as in the contemporary Anglo-American West.
Originating in pre-revolutionary bio-utopianism, the Russian
rhetoric of liquids and flow reached an apotheosis during Stalin's
First Five-Year Plan and re-emerged in post-Soviet \"managed
democracy\" and Western neoliberalism.
The literary, philosophical, and official texts that Work
Flows examines give voice to the Stalinist ambition of
reforging not merely individual bodies, but space and time
themselves. By mobilizing the understudied thematic of fluidity,
Vinokour offers insight into the nexus of philosophy, literature,
and science that underpinned Stalinism and remains influential
today. Work Flows demonstrates that Stalinism is not a historical
phenomenon restricted to the period 1922-1953, but a symptom of
modernity as it emerged in the twentieth century. Stalinism's
legacy extends far beyond the bounds of the former Soviet Union,
emerging in seemingly disparate settings like post-Soviet Russia
and Silicon Valley.
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The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great
Empress Catherine II produced a body of written material so vast and diverse that it seems impossible to provide a general characterization of the works contained in the authoritative twelve-volume collection assembled by A. N. Pypin from handwritten source material. This book does not attempt an all-embracing review of Catherine’s entire literary output, which consists of works in multiple genres and languages. The Russian empress’s writings have been the repeated subject of serious analysis for nineteenth- and twentieth-century researchers; all of these in one way or another demonstrate that across a variety of genres and formats, with a greater or lesser degree of independence and originality, the literary works of Catherine II always express her politics and ideology. These texts were carefully prepared, their publications and stage productions executed magnificently. As a rule, the most significant works were translated into French, German, and, in some cases, English. European readers, as well as the Russian public, were expected to be attentive witnesses to, and happy consumers of, the monarch’s compositions. Amongst rulers, the literary productivity of the Russian empress has no analogue in history. This volume is the first study in English of the vast literary output of Catherine the Great.
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The Bolshevik Revolution
Explore the events leading up to the Russian Revolution and see what effect it had on the rest of the 20th century.
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Russia’s Dangerous Texts
Russia's Dangerous Textsexamines the ways that writers and their works unnerved and irritated Russia's authoritarian rulers both before and after the Revolution. Kathleen F. Parthé identifies ten historically powerful beliefs about literature and politics in Russia, which include a view of the artistic text as national territory, and the belief that writers must avoid all contact with the state.Parthé offers a compelling analysis of the power of Russian literature to shape national identity despite sustained efforts to silence authors deemed subversive. No amount of repression could prevent the production, distribution, and discussion of texts outside official channels. Along with tragic stories of lost manuscripts and persecuted writers, there is ample evidence of an unbroken thread of political discourse through art. The book concludes with a consideration of the impact of two centuries of dangerous texts on post-Soviet Russia.
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Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880
In an event acknowledged to be a watershed in modern Russian cultural history, the elite of Russian intellectual life gathered in Moscow in 1880 to celebrate the dedication of a monument to the poet Alexander Pushkin, who had died nearly half a century earlier. Private and government forces joined to celebrate a literary figure, in a country in which monuments were usually dedicated to military or political heroes. In this richly detailed narrative history of the Pushkin Celebration and the developments that led up to it, Marcus C. Levitt explores the unique role of literature in nineteenth-century Russian intellectual life and puts Russian literary criticism, and Pushkin's posthumous reputation, into fresh perspective. Drawing on Soviet archival materials not readily available in the West, Levitt describes the preparations for the monument and the unfolding of the celebration. His sustained discussions of Turgenev's role and of Dostoevsky's famous Pushkin Speech shed new light on what was for both a culminating moment in their careers. In Levitt's view, the Pushkin Celebration represented the articulation of liberal, post-Emancipation hopes for an independent Russian intelligentsia and culture. His analysis of the problems faced by Russian liberalism illuminates the failure of concerted efforts to secure freedom of speech in nineteenth-century Russia.
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