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Children of Rus
InChildren of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River-which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine-was one of the Russian empire's last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest's Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities.
Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire's most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest's culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire.
Exploring why and how the empire's southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state.
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Translation and the making of modern Russian literature
Brian James Baer explores the central role played by translation in the construction of modern Russian literature. Peter I's policy of forced Westernization resulted in translation becoming a widely discussed and highly visible practice in Russia, a multi-lingual empire with a polyglot elite. Yet Russia's accumulation of cultural capital through translation occurred at a time when the Romantic obsession with originality was marginalizing translation as mere imitation. The awareness on the part of Russian writers that their literature and, by extension, their cultural identity were \"born in translation\" produced a sustained and sophisticated critique of Romantic authorship and national identity that has long been obscured by the nationalist focus of traditional literary studies. By offering a re-reading of seminal works of the Russian literary canon that thematize translation, alongside studies of the circulation and reception of specific translated texts, Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature models the long overdue integration of translation into literary and cultural studies.
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Fairy tales and true stories : the history of Russian literature for children and young people (1574-2010)
Russian children's literature has a history that goes back over 400 years. This book offers a comprehensive study of its development, setting Russian authors and their books in the context of translated literature, critical debates and official cultural policy.
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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 Russian graphosphere, 1450-1850
\"This book explores a new approach to the study of writing, with a focus on Russia during its 'long early modernity' from the late 15th century to the early 19th century\"-- Provided by publisher.
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