num_pages: 320
description: The writings of Alexander Pushkin, Russia`s celebrated poet and thinker, have strongly influenced Russians` views of themselves and their past. This book examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin`s fictional and nonfictional works on the subject of history and considers his ideas on the relation between chance and necessity, the significance of great individuals, and historical truth.
language: English
title: Pushkin's Historical Imagination
titlecomplete: Pushkin's Historical Imagination (Russian Literature and Thought Series)
series: Russian Literature and Thought Series
publisher: Yale University Press