Russian and East European Studies
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Russian and East European Studies

The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy

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The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy

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The "Silver Age" (c. 1890-1917) has been one of the most intensely studied topics in Russian literary studies, and for years scholars have been struggling with its precise definition. Firmly established in the Russian cultural psyche, it continues to influence both literature and mass media. The Archaeology of Anxiety is the first extended analysis of why the Silver Age occupies such prominence in Russian collective consciousness.Galina Rylkova examines the Silver Age as a cultural construct-the byproduct of an anxiety that permeated society in reaction to the social, political, and cultural upheavals brought on by the Bolshevik Revolution, the fall of the Romanovs, the Civil War, and Stalin's Great Terror. Rylkova's astute analysis of writings by Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak and Victor Erofeev reveals how the construct of the Silver Age was perpetuated and ingrained.Rylkova explores not only the Silver Age's importance to Russia's cultural identity but also the sustainability of this phenomenon. In so doing, she positions the Silver Age as an essential element to Russian cultural survival.

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780822973355
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. Introduction: Anxiety and the Russian Silver Age
  4. 2. Literature and Revolution: The Case of Aleksandr Blok
  5. 3. The Russian Silver Age: Its Makers and Undertakers
  6. 4. No “Room of Her Own”: Anna Akhmatova’s Tenure in Soviet Culture
  7. 5. The Winged Eavesdropper: Kuzmin and Nabokov
  8. 6. The Silver Age in Translation: Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago
  9. 7. Braving the Thaw: Anna Akhmatova in the 1950s and the 1960s
  10. 8. The Apocalypse Revisited: Viktor Erofeev’s Russian Beauty
  11. 9. Coda: The Silver Age Up Close
  12. Appendix: Original Russian Texts
  13. Notes
  14. Index