The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture
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The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture

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The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture

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This book is the first interdisciplinary treatment of the cultural significance of the Decembrists' mythic image in Russian literature, history, film and opera in a survey of its deployment as cultural trope since the original 1825 rebellion and through the present day.

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Year
2009
ISBN
9780230104716

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. One: The Decembrist Myth in the Nineteenth Century
  10. Two: Literariness and Self-Fashioning in the Decembrists' Memoirs
  11. Three: The Image in Flux in the Early Twentieth Century
  12. Four: The Battle over Representation during the Centennial
  13. Five: Centennial Representations in Fiction and Film
  14. Six: Rewriting Russian History: Stalin Era Representations
  15. Seven: The Decembrists and Dissidence: Myth and Anti-Myth from the 1960s–1980s
  16. Eight: The Decembrists' Desacralization during the Glasnost and Post–Soviet Eras
  17. Epilogue: "The Decembrists Are Our All"
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index