The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture [electronic resource] /
Trigos, L.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.
The Decembrist myth in the nineteenth century -- Literariness and self-fashioning in the Decembrists' memoirs -- The image in flux in the early twentieth century -- The battle over representation during the centennial --  Centennial representations in fiction and film -- Rewriting Russian history : Stalin era presentations -- The Decembrists and dissidence : myth and anti-myth from the 1960s-1980s -- The Decembrists and dissidence : myth and anti-myth from the 1960s-1980s -- The Decembrists' desacralization during glasnost and post-Soviet Eras -- "The Decembrists are our all".
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.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
European literature.
Ethnology.
Russia-History.
Europe, Eastern-History.
Motion pictures-History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
European Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
Film History.