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2. A Generation That Has Squandered Its Men: The Late Soviet Crisis of Masculinity in the Poetry of Sergei Gandlevskii.
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POPOVIC, DUNJA
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MASCULINITY in literature , *SOVIET poetry , *SOCIAL conditions of men , *MASCULINITY & society , *MANNERS & customs ,SOCIAL conditions in the Soviet Union, 1970-1991 - Abstract
The present paper explores the role images of masculinity play in the work of the contemporary Russian poet Sergei Gandlevskii. Gandlevskii's treatment of masculinity, the paper argues, serves as a vehicle for commentary on the historical situation of the late Soviet era, as well as providing an outlet for the poet's reflection upon his own life path and, at times, for an implicit moral self-judgment within the context of a general condemnation of Soviet society. Gandlevskii's poetry, the paper attempts to show, reflects what the sociologists Elena Zdravomyslova and Anna Temkina have termed a 'crisis of masculinity' characteristic of late Soviet society: it associates a masculine life-path with the notions of futility, moral failure and existential impasse. At the same time that Gandlevskii treats Soviet-era paradigms of masculinity with skepticism and distance, however, he also does engage to some extent in fantasies of masculine autonomy and agency as possible even within the context of Soviet society. This ambivalence is preserved in Gandlevskii's work through the poet's use of various masculine personae (some more distant than others from his biographical self), as well as by the abundance of quotations from other poets and from official Soviet discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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3. “That Historical Family”: The Bakunin Archive and the Intimate Theater of History in Imperial Russia, 1780–1925.
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RANDOLPH, JOHN
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ARCHIVES , *HISTORY , *SCHOLARS - Abstract
Focuses on the Bakunin family archives and the history of Russian social thought in Imperial Russia. Description of the genesis of scholarly interest in the Bakunin family and its papers; Examination of the making of the archive of the family; Description of the process by which the Bakunin family papers were integrated into national collections.
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- 2004
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4. Art Is Inoculation: The Infectious Imagination of Leo Tolstoy.
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EMERY, JACOB
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AESTHETICS , *INFECTION , *RUSSIAN literature , *LITERARY criticism , *DISEASES in literature - Abstract
Tolstoy's most cogent and focused statement on aesthetics, the 1896 treatise What is Art?, answers the question posed by its title with the blunt statement that 'art is infection.' This paper observes that a consistent system of metaphors of infection is central not just to What is Art?, but to every stage and genre of Tolstoy's writing-polemical, autobiographical, and literary works, early journals and late-life rantings. Arguing that the complex of disease metaphors running through the entirety of Tolstoy's work affords the reader one way of conceptualizing Tolstoy's massive oeuvre as a single coherent corpus, the essay reads specific moments from a range of Tolstoyan texts in order to sketch out infection's relation to the themes of mortality, morality, and the artistic imagination that loom most largely in Tolstoy's thought. Reexamined in this light, the apparently strained relationship between the aesthetic and ethical aspects of Tolstoy's artistic theory turns out to be more nuanced, compelling, and more resonant with the Kantian aesthetic tradition than previously recognized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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5. Fugitive Worlds and Moving Authors.
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RANDOLPH, JOHN
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LITERARY criticism ,RUSSIAN Empire, 1613-1917 - Abstract
The author opines on articles in the current issue that address, in one fashion or another, the role played by the concept of movement in nineteenth-century literature. In the author's view contributions by Ingrid Kleespies and Anne Lounsbery use the fixity of the main character in the novel "Oblomov" to convey an alternative presentation of motion. He observes that a paper submitted by Katya Hokanson illustrates that one approach to identifying where Russian literature intersects with the mundane involved trying to expand, in literary fashion, the nineteenth-century Russian empire.
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- 2011
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6. The Edge of Empire or the Center of the Self: Endpoints and Itineraries in Nineteenth-Century Russian Travel.
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DICKINSON, SARA
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LITERARY criticism , *HOMECOMING - Abstract
The article introduces and opines upon articles in the current issue. An article by Valeria Sobol discusses a work entitled "Geroi nashego vremeni" by somebody named Lermontov as a means of understanding the youthful development of somebody else referred to as Pechorin. A paper by Ingrid Kleespies examines a couple of figures named Onegin and Oblomov in her effort to demonstrate that the idea of a Russian "homecoming" is futile. An article by Anne Lounsbery shows how the novel "Oblomov" addresses issues of mobility and modernization.
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- 2011
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7. Was the Russo-Japanese War World War Zero?
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STEINBERG, JOHN W.
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CONFERENCES & conventions , *RUSSO-Japanese War, 1904-1905 , *WAR - Abstract
Information about several papers discussed at the conference titled "Re-imagining Culture in the Russo-Japanese War" held in London, England in March 2004 is presented. Topics focus on the impact of the Russo-Japanese war on society. The conference featured several writers including Naoko Shimazu, Rosamund Bartlett, and David Crowley.
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- 2008
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8. Japonisme and Japanophobia: The Russo-Japanese War in Russian Cultural Consciousness.
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BARTLETT, ROSAMUND
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RUSSO-Japanese War, 1904-1905 , *ART & war , *WAR & literature , *WAR , *NATIONALISM , *INTERNATIONAL relations ,JAPANESE foreign relations - Abstract
The article discusses the Russo-Japanese war in the context of the emergence of Japonisme. The author provides an in depth analysis of the impact of the war on Russian art and literature. He examines how the war manifested itself in Russian cultural consciousness on the domestic front. The nationalist response to the belligerent colonialist expansion of Russia in the Far East is discussed. Studies that investigate the causes and military operations of the war are highlighted. These include papers by writers Petr Vykhodtsev, Paul Bushkovitch, and Barbara Heldt.
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- 2008
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9. From Pis'ma to Pis'mena: Ideological and journalistic contexts of Remizov's documentary project.
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Manouelian, Edward
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ARCHIVAL materials , *CRITICISM - Abstract
Focuses on Aleksei Remizov's documentary project entitled `Rossiiaa v pismenakh,' which featured family papers of Russian nobility in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Archival publications in late imperial Russia; Annotation of letters and documents from the Rachinskii family archive; Publication of the work in `Zavety'; Manuscript as metonymy of the past.
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- 1996
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10. Antibourgeois propaganda and anti`burzhui' consciousness in 1917.
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Kolonitskii, Boris I.
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RUSSIAN Revolution, 1917-1921 - Abstract
Examines the antibourgeois propaganda during the Russian Revolution in 1917-1921. Socialist parties' control of presses, paper supplies and other printing establishments; Factors that deepened the antibourgeois orientation of mass consciousness; Influence of the socialist political subculture in revolutionary symbols and other aspects of politics; Other parties and sectors with anticapitalist position.
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- 1994
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11. Dispelling the “Fog of Half-Forgotten History”.
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Glade, Shirley A.
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ART , *NONFICTION - Abstract
Kyzlasova, Irina L. Aleksandr Ivanovich Anisimov. Iz istorii issledovaniia khudozhestvennoi kul'tury Vyzantii i Drevnei Rusi. Vol. 1. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo gornogo universiteta, 2000. 90 pp. (paper). Kyzlasova, Irina L. Istoriia otechestvennoi nauki ob iskusstve Vyzantii i Drevnei Rusi 1920–1930 gody: Po materialam arkhivam. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii gornikh nauk, 2000. 450 pp. ISBN 5-7892-0055-9. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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12. Book Reviews.
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Firkatian, Mari A., Mihailovic, Alexander, Reyfman, Irina, Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl, Rabinowitz, Stanley, Clowes, Edith W., Sylvester, Richard D., Engelstein, Laura, Slater, Wendy, Kostina, Alexandra, Dobrenko, Evgeny, Davis, Nathaniel, Martin, Alexander M., Prousis, Theophilus C., Hamm, Michael F., Clements, Barbara Evans, Horowitz, Brian, Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, and Randall, Amy E.
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- ARMENIAN Folk Arts, Culture & Identity (Book), HIGH Stakes of Identity: Gambling in the Life & Literature of 19th-Century Russia, The (Book), RUSSIAN Genre Painting in the 19th Century (Book), BY Authors Possessed (Book)
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Books Reviewed: Levon Abrahamian and Nancy Sweezy, eds., Armenian Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity I. A. Esaulov, Kategoriia sobornosti v russkoi literature Ian M. Helfant, The High Stakes of Identity: Gambling in the Life and Literature of Nineteenth–Century Russia Rosalind P. Gray, Russian Genre Painting in the Nineteenth Century Adam Weiner, By Authors Possessed: The Demonic Novel in Russia James P. Scanlan, Dostoevsky the Thinker Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime of Music Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina, eds., Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women’s Diaries, Mem–oirs, and Documentary Prose Daniel J. MahoneyAleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology Anthony Olcott, Russian Pulp: The Detektiv and the Russian Way of Crime N. L. Leiderman and M. N. Lipovetsky., Sovremennaia russkaia literatura: Novyi uchebnik po literature v 3–kh knigakh Dale Pesmen, Russia and Soul: An Exploration William Benton Whisenhunt, In Search of Legality: Mikhail M. Speranskii and the Codification of Russian Law Joint Committee on Communication with the Russo–Greek Church, Established by the General Convention of The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1862., Russo–Greek Papers, 1863–1874 Blair A. Ruble, Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Mos–cow, and Meiji Osaka Marcelline J. Hutton, Russian and West European Women, 1860–1939: Dreams, Struggles, and Nightmares Israel Kliener, From Nationalism to Universalism: Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky and the Ukrai–nian Question Mark D. Steinberg, Voices of Revolution, 1917 Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia Larry E. Holmes, Stalin’s School: Moscow’s Model School No. 25, 1931–1937 Maureen Perrie, The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia Taras Hunczak, On the Horns of a Dilemma: The Story of the Ukrainian Division J. Eric Duskin, Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confirmation of a New Elite, 1945–1953 Nanci, The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System Vera Tolz, Russia: Inventing the Nation Chris J. Chulos and Johannes Remy, eds, Imperial and National Identities in Pre–revolutionary, Soviet, and Post–Soviet Russia Mary Masayo Doi, Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan Dennis Shasha and Marina Shron, Red Blues: Voices from the Last Wave of Russian Immigrants Pavel Podvig ed., Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces Andrew Felkay, Yeltsin’s Russia and the West J. N. Westwood, Soviet Railways to Russian Railways Peter Rutland ed., Business and the State in Contemporary Russia Richard J. Krickus, The Kaliningrad Question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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13. Book Review.
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LITERATURE , *NONFICTION - Abstract
Books Reviewed: Newlin, Thomas. The Voice in the Garden: Andrei Bolotov and the Anxieties of Russian Pastoral, 1738-1833 . Leach, Robert and Victor Borovsky, eds. A History of Russian Theatre . Kurganov, Efim and Henrietta Mondry. Rozanov i Evrei . Brooks, Crispin. The Futurism of Vasilisk Gnedov . Dalton-Brown, Sally. Voices from the Void: The Genres of Liudmila Petrushevskaia . Rubins, Maria. Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures: Ecphrasis in Russian and French Poetry . Ryan, Karen L. and Barry P. Scherr, eds. Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995 . Gorskii, A. A. Moskva i Orda . Dunning, Chester S. L. Russiaís First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty . Liakovich, Elena S. and Aleksandr S. Revushkin. Universitety v istorii i kul'ture dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii . Gvosdev, Nikolas K. Imperial Policies and Perspectives Toward Georgia, 1760-1819 . Worobec, Christine D. Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia . Hillyar, Anna and Jane McDermid. Revolutionary Women in Russia, 1870-1917: A Collective Biography . Weiss, Claudia. Das Russland zwischen den Zeilen: Die russische Emigrantenpresse im Frankreich der 1920er Jahre und ihre Bedeutung für die Genese der “Zarubezhnaja Rossija.” Phillips, Laura L. The Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900-1929 . Safran, Gabriella. Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire . Veidlinger, Jeffrey. The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage . Alpert, Yakov. Making Waves: Stories from My Life . Rubenstein, Joshua and Vladimir P. Naumov, eds. Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee . Bukharin, Nikolai. How It All Began: The Prison Novel . Toker, Leona. Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors . Carlton, David.... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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14. British observers of Soviet affairs, 1917-1939.
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- BRITISH Documents on Foreign Affairs (Book)
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Reviews the book `British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: The Soviet Union, 1917-1939,` edited by D. Cameron Watt and Dominic Lieven.
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- 1992
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15. Book reviews: Literature and fine arts.
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- ISSUES in Russian Literature Before 1917 (Book)
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Reviews the book `Issues in Russian Literature before 1917,` edited by J. Douglas Clayton (Selected Papers of the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies).
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- 1992
16. Book Reviews.
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Robinson, Neil
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- ELITES & Leadership in Russian Politics (Book)
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Reviews the book `Elites and Leadership in Russian Politics: Selected Papers From the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995,' edited by Graeme Gill.
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- 1999
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17. Book reviews.
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Salmond, Wendy R.
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- NEW Perspective on Russian & Soviet Artistic Culture (Book)
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Reviews the book `New Perspective on Russian and Soviet Artistic Culture: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990,' edited by John O. Norman.
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- 1997
18. Book reviews.
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Bodin, Per-Arne
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- ANNA Akhmatova, 1889-1989 (Book)
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Reviews the book `Anna Akhmatova, 1889-1989; Papers From the Akhmatova Centennial Conference, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, June 1989,' edited by Sonia I. Ketchian.
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- 1994
19. Book reviews: History.
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Youngblood, D.J.
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- ESSAYS on a Revolutionary Culture & Stalinism (Book)
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Reviews the book `Essays on a Revolutionary Culture and Stalinism: Selected Papers from the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies,` edited by John W. Strong.
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- 1992
20. Book reviews.
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Young, M.J. and Launer, M.K.
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- RUSSIAN Press From Brezhnev to Yeltsin, The (Book)
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Reviews the book `The Russian Press from Brezhnev to Yeltsin: Behind the Paper Curtain,' by John Murray.
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- 1995
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