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Times of trouble : violence in Russian literature and culture
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- Creator
- edited by Marcus C. Levitt and Tatyana Novikov
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- x, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0299224309, 9780299224301
- OCLC
- ocn126802656
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: the consciousness of violence in Russian history and culture / Marcus C. Levitt -- The scourge of god: the Mongols and violence in Russian history / Charles J. Halperin -- Violent outcomes: Mikhail Lermontov and Romanticism's insoluble problems / David Powelstock -- The spectacle of the scaffold: performance and subversion in the execution of the Decembrists / Ludmilla A. Trigos -- The invisible scaffold: execution and imagination in Vasilii Zhukovskii's works / Ilya Vinitsky -- The wounded young heart: Dostoevsky's Netochka Nezvanova as Bildungsroman / Elena Krasnostchekova -- Violence and the word: Dostoevsky / Harriet Murav -- Nihilists and terrorists / Daniel Brower -- Violence and the legacy of "Bakuninism" in the Russian Revolution / Frank J. Goodwin -- On blood, scandal, renunciation and Russian history: Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible and his son / Kevin M. F. Platt -- Alimentary violence: eating as a trope in Russian literature / Ronald LeBlanc -- Russian-Jewish writers face pogroms (1881-1917) / Brian Horowitz -- The origins of Soviet state terrorism: 1917-1921 / Anna Geifman -- The problem of revolutionary violence in Isaac Babel's stories / Victor Peppard -- State violence in the Stalin period / J. Arch Getty -- The struggle against treason: the great purges of 1936-38 in the mirror of the Oprichnina / Maureen Perrie -- A substitute for writing: representation of violence in incidents by Daniil Kharms / Mark Lipovetsky -- The sadists' club: struggling with the legacy of Stalinism in Vasilii Aksenov's The burn / Nina Efimov -- Circles of hell, circles of life: two responses to violence in Gulag memoirs / Natasha Kolchevska -- Violence in Victor Astafev's fiction / Julian D. Moss -- Death and the maiden: erasures of the feminine in the Soviet literature of the fin-de-siècle / Nadya L. Peterson -- Violence in modern Russian utopia and anti-utopia / Boris Lanin and Elena Vassileva -- The female face of violence: Russian culture and violence against women / Teresa L. Polowy -- Angry women's voices: revenge fantasies in Nina Sadur's stories / Tatyana Novikov -- Violence, madness, and the female grotesque in Nina Sadur's The South and Svetlana Vasilenko's Little fool / Elizabeth Skomp -- Chechen war memoirs and nationalist identity in contemporary Russia / Anna Brodsky