Times of trouble
Subtitle: violence in Russian literature and culture
By: edited by Marcus C. Levitt and Tatyana Novikov
Contributors: Levitt, Marcus C., 1954-; Novikov, Tatyana, 1952-
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780299224301
Subjects: Russian literature -- Themes, motives; Violence in literature; Violence -- Russia -- History; Violence -- Soviet Union -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the consciousness of violence in Russian history and culture / Marcus C. Levitt; title: The scourge of god: the Mongols and violence in Russian history / Charles J. Halperin; title: Violent outcomes: Mikhail Lermontov and Romanticism's insoluble problems / David Powelstock; title: The spectacle of the scaffold: performance and subversion in the execution of the Decembrists / Ludmilla A. Trigos; title: The invisible scaffold: execution and imagination in Vasilii Zhukovskii's works / Ilya Vinitsky; title: The wounded young heart: Dostoevsky's Netochka Nezvanova as Bildungsroman / Elena Krasnostchekova; title: Violence and the word: Dostoevsky / Harriet Murav; title: Nihilists and terrorists / Daniel Brower; title: Violence and the legacy of "Bakuninism" in the Russian Revolution / Frank J. Goodwin; title: On blood, scandal, renunciation and Russian history: Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible and his son / Kevin M. F. Platt; title: Alimentary violence: eating as a trope in Russian literature / Ronald LeBlanc; title: Russian-Jewish writers face pogroms (1881-1917) / Brian Horowitz; title: The origins of Soviet state terrorism: 1917-1921 / Anna Geifman; title: The problem of revolutionary violence in Isaac Babel's stories / Victor Peppard; title: State violence in the Stalin period / J. Arch Getty; title: The struggle against treason: the great purges of 1936-38 in the mirror of the Oprichnina / Maureen Perrie; title: A substitute for writing: representation of violence in incidents by Daniil Kharms / Mark Lipovetsky; title: The sadists' club: struggling with the legacy of Stalinism in Vasilii Aksenov's The burn / Nina Efimov; title: Circles of hell, circles of life: two responses to violence in Gulag memoirs / Natasha Kolchevska; title: Violence in Victor Astafev's fiction / Julian D. Moss; title: Death and the maiden: erasures of the feminine in the Soviet literature of the fin-de-siècle / Nadya L. Peterson; title: Violence in modern Russian utopia and anti-utopia / Boris Lanin and Elena Vassileva; title: The female face of violence: Russian culture and violence against women / Teresa L. Polowy; title: Angry women's voices: revenge fantasies in Nina Sadur's stories / Tatyana Novikov; title: Violence, madness, and the female grotesque in Nina Sadur's The South and Svetlana Vasilenko's Little fool / Elizabeth Skomp; title: Chechen war memoirs and nationalist identity in contemporary Russia / Anna Brodsky