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Russia imagined : art, culture and national identity, 1840-1995

Author: Robert Chadwell Williams
Publisher: New York : P. Lang, ©1997.
Series: Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature, v. 13.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
These interdisciplinary essays in Russian and Western cultural and intellectual history shed light on the migration of people, politics, art, and ideas between Russia, Europe, and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Chadwell Williams
ISBN: 0820434701 9780820434704
OCLC Number: 34984085
Description: xvi, 394 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Russian soul, revolutionary spirit: The Russian soul: Western thought and non-Western nationalism --
Russians in Germany, 1900-1914 --
Concerning the Western spiritual in Russian art: Vasily Kandinsky --
Theosophy and revolution: Huntly Carter and the "new spirit" in early Soviet theater --
2. Bolshevism, Leninism and Stalinism: Bolshevism in the West: from Leninist totalitarians to cultural revolutionaries --
Collective immortality: Western syndicalism and Russian proletarian culture --
Cultural revolution: the nationalization of early Soviet culture --
The last man in Europe: Orwell and the politics of collectivism --
3. From the other shore: Russia abroad --
Memory's defense: the real life of Vladimir Nabokov's Berlin --
"Changing directions" in Russian Berlin, 1922-1924 --
Boris Tödtli: a Russian fascist and Nazi Germany --
4. Selling the Russian national treasure: America's lost Russian paintings and the 1904 St. Louis Exposition --
The quiet trade: Russian art and Western money, 1928-1938 --
Selling the Romanov treasure --
5. Apocalypse now and then: The Russian Revolution and the end of time --
Father George Florovsky's ecumenical eschatology --
Virtuous republics and eternal empires: Goose Steppes, Weimar on the Volga, and other Western analogies.
Series Title: Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature, v. 13.
Responsibility: Robert C. Williams.

Abstract:

These interdisciplinary essays in Russian and Western cultural and intellectual history shed light on the migration of people, politics, art, and ideas between Russia, Europe, and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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