The Cambridge History of Russian Literature
The Cambridge History of Russian Literature

Author: Charles Moser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-04-30

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 9780521425674

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An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literature and additional bibliographical information. The individual chapters are by well-known specialists, and provide chronological coverage from the medieval period on, giving particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and including extensive discussion of works written outside the Soviet Union. The book is accessible to students and non-specialists, as well as to scholars of literature, and provides a wealth of information.

Romanism in Russia
Romanism in Russia

Author: Dmitry Tolstoy

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-12-31

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 3368849441

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia
Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia

Author: Ilya Vinitsky

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2015-05-31

Total Pages: 603

ISBN-13: 0810130998

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The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852)—poet, translator of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkin—this book brings overdue attention to an important figure in Russian literary and cultural history. Vinitsky’s “psychological biography” argues that Zhukovsky very consciously set out to create for himself an emotional life reflecting his unique brand of romanticism, different from what we associate with Pushkin or poets such as Byron or Wordsworth. For Zhukovsky, ideal love was harmonious, built on a mystical foundation of spiritual kinship. Vinitsky shows how Zhukovksy played a pivotal role in the evolution of ideas central to Russia’s literary and cultural identity from the end of the eighteenth century into the decades following the Napoleonic Wars.

Power and Conflict in Russia’s Borderlands
Power and Conflict in Russia’s Borderlands

Author: Helena Rytövuori-Apunen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-10-21

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1788316932

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As Cold War battle lines are seemingly re-drawn, Russia's various 'frozen' war zones (ongoing separatist conflicts) are often cited as particularly volatile and assumed by some Western commentators and policymakers to be 'next' on Putin's 'wish list'. But, as Helena Rytövuori-Apunen demonstrates here, this is a gross (and dangerous) oversimplification that will only serve to fuel the vicious circle of reciprocal military escalation. Drawing on a range of empirical research and across separatist conflicts in Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia), Moldova (Transnistria and Gagauzia) and Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh) and the 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, her timely book provides a balanced assessment and critique of the assumptions and misunderstandings that inform mainstream discussions, as well as placing the conflicts in their proper and complex historical contexts. At a time when there is an increasing tendency to view Russia as the source of all instability in Eastern Europe, Power and Conflict in Russia's Borderlands is essential reading for anyone interested in the geopolitics of post-Soviet Russia, as well as policymakers and practitioners of peace/conflict resolution studies.

The Russian Church and the Papacy
The Russian Church and the Papacy

Author: Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov

Publisher:

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9781888992298

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The Russian Church and the Papacy, edited by Father Ray Ryland, is an abridgement of Vladimir Soloviev's classic work, Russia and the Universal Church. This is a powerful defense of the papacy from Soloviev, a Russian Orthodox theologian who was committed to the cause of Christian unity and spent years attempting to convince his Orthodox brethren to reunite with Rome. Soloviev uses Scripture, history, and hardheaded logic to prove that the papacy is essential to Christian unity and truth, and without it the early Christian Church would have disintegrated into hundreds of competing sects.