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Times
of Trouble
Violence in Russian Literature
and Culture
Edited by Marcus C. Levitt and Tatyana Novikov
"The first book of its kind to
address head-on the problem of violence in Russian culture."–Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State University
Looking at the country that has added to
our vocabulary such colorful terms as "purges," "pogroms,"
and "gulag," this collection investigates the conspicuous
marks of violence in Russian history and culture.
Russians and non-Russians alike have long debated the reasons
for this endemic violence. Some have cited Russia's huge size,
unforgiving climate, and exposed geographical position as formative
in its national character, making invasion easy and order difficult.
Others have fixed the blame on cultural and religious traditions
that spurred internecine violence or on despotic rulers or unfortunate
episodes in the nation's history, such as the Mongol invasion,
the rule of Ivan the Terrible, or the "Red Terror"
of the revolution. Even in contemporary Russia, the specter of
violence continues, from widespread mistreatment of women to
racial antagonism, the product of a frustrated nationalism that
manifests itself in such phenomena as the wars in Chechnya.
Times of Trouble is the first book in English to explore
the problem of violence in Russia. From a variety of perspectives,
essays investigate Russian history as well as depictions of violence
in the visual arts and in literature, including the works of
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, Mikhail Lermontov, and Nina Sadur.
From the Mongol invasion to the present day, topics include the
gulag, genocide, violence against women, anti-Semitism, and terrorism
as a tool of revolution.
Marcus C. Levitt is
associate professor of Slavic languages at the University of
Southern California.
Tatyana Novikov is associate professor of Russian at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Contributors:
Anna Brodsky, Daniel Brower, Nina Efimov, Anna Geifman, J. Arch
Getty, Frank J. Goodwin, Charles J. Halperin, Brian Horowitz,
Natasha Kolchevska,
Elena Krasnostchekova, Boris Lanin, Ronald LeBlanc, Marcus Levitt,
Mark Lipovetsky, Julian D. Moss, Harriet Murav, Tatyana Novikov,
Victor Peppard, Maureen Perrie, Nadya L. Peterson, Kevin M. F.
Platt,
Teresa Polowy, David Powelstock, Elizabeth Skomp, Ludmilla A.
Trigos, Elena Vassileva, Ilya Vinitsky
Of Related Interest
Epic Revisionism
Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda
Edited by Kevin M. F. Platt and David Brandenberger
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December 2007
312 pp. 6 x 9 7 b/w illus.
ISBN-13: 978-0-299-22430-1
Cloth $60.00 s
(ISBN-10: 0-299-22430-9)
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