Terror & greatness : Ivan & Peter as Russian myths / Kevin M.F. Platt
- Author:
- Platt, Kevin M. F., 1967-
- Additional Titles:
- Terror and greatness
- Published:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 294 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Liminality -- Liminal Heroes -- History and Identity: Nikolai Karamzin and Nikolai G. Ustrialov -- The Historical Novel as Ritual: Ivan Lazhechnikov's The Last Novice and Aleksei K. Tolstoi's Prince Serebrianyi -- ch. Two Trauma -- Terror as Greatness -- Aleksandr Pushkin's Petrine Project -- Slavophiles and Westernizers -- ch. Three Filicide -- Page versus Stage -- Bloody Fathers and Dead Children: Tsarevich Aleksei and Tsarevich Ivan -- And Canvas: The Murdered Tsareviches in Historical Painting -- ch. Four Prognostication -- History as Myth -- Divination: Dmitrii Merezhkovskii's Antichrist (Peter and Aleksei) -- Dialectic: Pavel Miliukov's The Outlines of Russian Cultural History -- Irony's Reprise: Ilia Repin's Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan -- ch. Five Rehabilitation -- Stalinist Revisionism -- The 1920s: History without Actors, Historiography without the State -- Last Words: Andrei Shestakov's Short Course in the History of the USSR -- ch. Six Repetition -- Analogy and Allegory -- Afterimages: Aleksei N. Tolstoi's Many Returns to Peter the Great -- Allegory of Historiography: Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780801448133 (cloth : alk. paper) and 0801448131 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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