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"Russian Idea" of F.M. Dostoevsky: from Soilness to Universality
RUDN Journal of Philosophy 2021 Vol. 25 No. 1 15—24 Âåñòíèê ÐÓÄÍ. Ñåðèÿ: ÔÈËÎÑÎÔÈß http://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy DOI: 10.22363/2313-2302-2021-25-1-15-24 Research Article / Научная статья "Russian Idea" of F.M. Dostoevsky: from Soilness to Universality Sergei A. Nizhnikov Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), 6, Miklukho-Maklaya St., Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation, [email protected] Abstract. The author reveals Fyodor Dostoevsky's works main features, his importance for Russian and world philosophy. The researcher analyzes the concept of "Russian Idea" introduced by Dostoyevsky, which became a study subject in Russian philosophy's subsequent history. The polemics that arose regarding the characteristics of Dostoevsky's soilness (Pochvennichestvo) ideology and his interpretation of the Russian Idea in his Pushkin Speech and subsequent comments in A Writer's Diary are unveiled. The author concludes that Dostoevsky overcomes the limitations of soilness and comes to universalism. The universal for him does not have a rootless cosmopolitan character but is born from the national's heyday. Diversity adorns the truth, and national diversity enamels humankind. People's real unity is in that all-human value that is found in the highest examples of each national culture. The truth is not in rootless cosmopolitanism or nationalism — it is in the "golden mean," which, in our opinion, the writer-philosopher sought to express. Dostoevsky wanted to rise above the dispute, to recognize the points of view of the Slavophiles and Westernizers as one-sided, to get out of any particularity to universality. Keywords: Dostoevsky, Russian idea, soilness, universality, anthropology of hesychasm, all-human, nationality Funding and Acknowledgement of Sources. -
Catherine the Great and the Development of a Modern Russian Sovereignty, 1762-1796
Catherine the Great and the Development of a Modern Russian Sovereignty, 1762-1796 By Thomas Lucius Lowish A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Victoria Frede-Montemayor, Chair Professor Jonathan Sheehan Professor Kinch Hoekstra Spring 2021 Abstract Catherine the Great and the Development of a Modern Russian Sovereignty, 1762-1796 by Thomas Lucius Lowish Doctor of Philosophy in History University of California, Berkeley Professor Victoria Frede-Montemayor, Chair Historians of Russian monarchy have avoided the concept of sovereignty, choosing instead to describe how monarchs sought power, authority, or legitimacy. This dissertation, which centers on Catherine the Great, the empress of Russia between 1762 and 1796, takes on the concept of sovereignty as the exercise of supreme and untrammeled power, considered legitimate, and shows why sovereignty was itself the major desideratum. Sovereignty expressed parity with Western rulers, but it would allow Russian monarchs to bring order to their vast domain and to meaningfully govern the lives of their multitudinous subjects. This dissertation argues that Catherine the Great was a crucial figure in this process. Perceiving the confusion and disorder in how her predecessors exercised power, she recognized that sovereignty required both strong and consistent procedures as well as substantial collaboration with the broadest possible number of stakeholders. This was a modern conception of sovereignty, designed to regulate the swelling mechanisms of the Russian state. Catherine established her system through careful management of both her own activities and the institutions and servitors that she saw as integral to the system. -
Cambridge Companion Shakespeare on Film
This page intentionally left blank Film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This lively Companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare’s plays. An international team of leading scholars discuss Shakespearean films from a variety of perspectives:as works of art in their own right; as products of the international movie industry; in terms of cinematic and theatrical genres; and as the work of particular directors from Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles to Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh. They also consider specific issues such as the portrayal of Shakespeare’s women and the supernatural. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema, rather than television, with strong cov- erage of Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet. A guide to further reading and a useful filmography are also provided. Russell Jackson is Reader in Shakespeare Studies and Deputy Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He has worked as a textual adviser on several feature films including Shakespeare in Love and Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He is co-editor of Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History (1996) and two volumes in the Players of Shakespeare series. He has also edited Oscar Wilde’s plays. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE ON FILM CAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS TO LITERATURE The Cambridge Companion to Old English The Cambridge Companion to William Literature Faulkner edited by Malcolm Godden and Michael edited by Philip M. -
An Old Believer ―Holy Moscow‖ in Imperial Russia: Community and Identity in the History of the Rogozhskoe Cemetery Old Believers, 1771 - 1917
An Old Believer ―Holy Moscow‖ in Imperial Russia: Community and Identity in the History of the Rogozhskoe Cemetery Old Believers, 1771 - 1917 Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Doctoral Degree of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Peter Thomas De Simone, B.A., M.A Graduate Program in History The Ohio State University 2012 Dissertation Committee: Nicholas Breyfogle, Advisor David Hoffmann Robin Judd Predrag Matejic Copyright by Peter T. De Simone 2012 Abstract In the mid-seventeenth century Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow, introduced a number of reforms to bring the Russian Orthodox Church into ritualistic and liturgical conformity with the Greek Orthodox Church. However, Nikon‘s reforms met staunch resistance from a number of clergy, led by figures such as the archpriest Avvakum and Bishop Pavel of Kolomna, as well as large portions of the general Russian population. Nikon‘s critics rejected the reforms on two key principles: that conformity with the Greek Church corrupted Russian Orthodoxy‘s spiritual purity and negated Russia‘s historical and Christian destiny as the Third Rome – the final capital of all Christendom before the End Times. Developed in the early sixteenth century, what became the Third Rome Doctrine proclaimed that Muscovite Russia inherited the political and spiritual legacy of the Roman Empire as passed from Constantinople. In the mind of Nikon‘s critics, the Doctrine proclaimed that Constantinople fell in 1453 due to God‘s displeasure with the Greeks. Therefore, to Nikon‘s critics introducing Greek rituals and liturgical reform was to invite the same heresies that led to the Greeks‘ downfall. -
Communism: Why Liberal Reforms Did Not Succeed in Russia ______
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Cultural Contradictions of Post- Communism: Why Liberal Reforms Did Not Succeed in Russia ___________________________ Nina L. Khrushcheva A Paper from the Project on Development, Trade and International Finance Copyright © 2000 by the Council on Foreign Relations®, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and excerpts by reviewers for the pubic press), without written permission from the publisher. For information, write Publications Office, Council on Foreign Relations, 58 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021. Cultural Contradictions of Post-Communism Why Liberal Reforms Did Not Succeed in Russia Things that I admire elsewhere, I hate here [in Russia]… I find them too dearly paid for; order, patience, calmness, elegance, respectfulness, the natural and moral relations that ought to exist between those who think and those who do, in short all that gives worth and charm to well-organized societies, all that gives meaning and purpose to political institutions, is lost… here… Marquis de Custine, 1839 We wanted for the better, but it still turned out as usual. Victor Chernomyrdin, 1998 INTRODUCTION One goal of Russia’s economic reforms over the last ten years has been to establish a new class of businessmen and owners of private property -- people who could form the foundation for a new model post-Soviet citizen. However, the experience of this post-communist economic "revolution" has turned out to be very different from the original expectations. -
In the Lands of the Romanovs: an Annotated Bibliography of First-Hand English-Language Accounts of the Russian Empire
ANTHONY CROSS In the Lands of the Romanovs An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of The Russian Empire (1613-1917) OpenBook Publishers To access digital resources including: blog posts videos online appendices and to purchase copies of this book in: hardback paperback ebook editions Go to: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/268 Open Book Publishers is a non-profit independent initiative. We rely on sales and donations to continue publishing high-quality academic works. In the Lands of the Romanovs An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917) Anthony Cross http://www.openbookpublishers.com © 2014 Anthony Cross The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the text; to adapt it and to make commercial use of it providing that attribution is made to the author (but not in any way that suggests that he endorses you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Cross, Anthony, In the Land of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917), Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/ OBP.0042 Please see the list of illustrations for attribution relating to individual images. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omissions or errors will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. As for the rights of the images from Wikimedia Commons, please refer to the Wikimedia website (for each image, the link to the relevant page can be found in the list of illustrations). -
The Impact and Presence of the Writings of Laurence Sterne In
The Impact and Presence of the Writings o f Laurence Sterne in Eighteenth-Century Russia © Maria Lobytsyna A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Letters Department of English University of Glasgow Department of Slavonic Languages and Literatures 2001 ProQuest Number: 13819011 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 13819011 Published by ProQuest LLC(2018). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 GLASGOW 1 UNIVERSITY (LIBRARY: ooPM 'i 2 Abstract The works of Laurence Sterne have made a significant and long-lasting contribution to the literary and cultural life of Russia. The early translations of the Letters from Yorick and Eliza and A Sentimental Journey as well as the critical discussions in the Russian media of the 1770s-1790s brought Russia into the mainstream of eighteenth century politics of Sensibility. The eighteenth-century Russian translations of Sterne’s Letters from Yorick to Eliza by Apukhtin (1789), Kolmakov (1793) and Karin (1795) and the first translation of A Sentimental Journey by Kolmakov (1793) reinforced the contemporary approach to questions of self development and morality, having anticipated the interpretation of literature as the enlightenment of the heart. -
The Fate of Russia: Several Observations on "New" Russian Identity
THE FATE OF RUSSIA: SEVERAL OBSERVATIONS ON "NEW" RUSSIAN IDENTITY S. V. Kortunov Introduction Russia is going through a complicated historical period. A search is taking place for the optimal path of development and the best form of state structure. Social-economic ties are changing in a fundamental manner. Along with the not insignificant positive results of the political and economic reforms that are being carried out, negative processes in the economy, in the social sphere and in the relations between the center and the regions are becoming clearly evident. On the international arena, Russia is confronting the desire of a number of countries to use the transitional period to promote their economic and political interests, often to the detriment of Russians' national aspirations. Three overarching factors characterize the Russian domestic situation: the continuing systematic crisis in society, which began in the Soviet period; the country's development crisis, which appeared during the transitional period; and the difficulties of overcoming the residues of the former totalitarian regime. (These problems are in turn linked to the global crisis that has resulted from the collapse of the Cold War order.) It is obvious that the contemporary crisis is on a larger scale than the problems associated with the February and October 1917 Revolutions, the abolition of serfdom, and even the Time of Troubles. We are discussing a crisis that is comparable only to the epic transformation of the 13th century, when the collapse of one superethnos (Kievian Russ) occurred and a new nation, country, and civilization (the Russian superethnos) began to be born. -
April, 2016 Kevin J. Mckenna EDUCATION
April, 2016 Kevin J. McKenna EDUCATION: Ph.D. Degree 1977, University of Colorado: Slavic Languages and Literatures M.A. Degree 1971, University of Colorado: Russian Literature B.A. Degree 1970, Oklahoma State University (OSU): Humanities NDEA Intensive Slavic Language Institutes at the University of Kansas and Leningrad State University, 1968, 1969, 1970 Dissertation Title: Catherine the Great's ‘Vsiakaia Vsiachina’ and The ‘Spectator’ Tradition of the Satirical Journal of Morals and Manners RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS: Recipient of Lattie F. Coor Endowment grant for travel expenses to St. Petersburg, Russia to deliver a an invited paper at the Academy of Sciences International Meeting devoted to the 750th anniversary of the death of Alexander Nevsky: “Дидактическая роль русских пословиц и поговорок в фильме Алексангдр Невский Сергея Эйзенштейна.” Recipient of Lattie F. Coor Faculty Development Award ($2,500.) to conduct research on my book: The Role of the Russian Proverb in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Fictional and Publicistic Writing Named a Solzhenitsyn Fellow at the Solzhenitsyn Museum/Archives, Moscow (2011- 2012) Invited Keynote Speaker to speak on research for my Solzhenitsyn book at Samara State University (Samara, Russia) at a Conference on the Moral Basis of the Development of Contemporary Russian Society (February 28th—March 4th, 2011) Consultant and collaborator to U.S. Department of Education/Department of State grant to develop a nationwide portfolio project for High School through College Critical Foreign Language Programs in Arabic, Chinese and Russian (2009-2013) RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS: (continued) 2 Recipient of the Robert V. Daniels Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of International Studies, May 7, 2009 Nominee for Kroepsch-Maurice Outstanding Teacher Award, 2009/2010 U.S. -
Reading Queerly and Constructing the Homosexual Before the Closet (1810-1830) Gary C
Macalester College DigitalCommons@Macalester College Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Projects Spring 5-6-2013 Nos ancêtres, les pervers: Reading Queerly and Constructing the Homosexual Before the Closet (1810-1830) Gary C. Kilian Mr. [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/wgst_honors Part of the French and Francophone Literature Commons, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Other French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Kilian, Gary C. Mr., "Nos ancêtres, les pervers: Reading Queerly and Constructing the Homosexual Before the Closet (1810-1830)" (2013). Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Projects. Paper 2. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/wgst_honors/2 This Honors Project is brought to you for free and open access by the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at DigitalCommons@Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Projects by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Macalester College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Nos ancêtres, les pervers: Reading Queerly and Constructing the Homosexual Before the Closet (1810-1830) Gary Charles Kilian Professor Ryan Murphy, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Professor Juliette M Rogers, French and Francophone Studies May 6, -
Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis
the national bureau of asian research nbr project report | may 2010 russia’s peacetime demographic crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications By Nicholas Eberstadt ++ The NBR Project Report provides access to current research on special topics conducted by the world’s leading experts in Asian affairs. The views expressed in these reports are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of other NBR research associates or institutions that support NBR. The National Bureau of Asian Research is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution dedicated to informing and strengthening policy. NBR conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, globalization, health, and energy issues affecting U.S. relations with Asia. Drawing upon an extensive network of the world’s leading specialists and leveraging the latest technology, NBR bridges the academic, business, and policy arenas. The institution disseminates its research through briefings, publications, conferences, Congressional testimony, and email forums, and by collaborating with leading institutions worldwide. NBR also provides exceptional internship opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students for the purpose of attracting and training the next generation of Asia specialists. NBR was started in 1989 with a major grant from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation. Funding for NBR’s research and publications comes from foundations, corporations, individuals, the U.S. government, and from NBR itself. NBR does not conduct proprietary or classified research. The organization undertakes contract work for government and private-sector organizations only when NBR can maintain the right to publish findings from such work. To download issues of the NBR publications, please visit the NBR website http://www.nbr.org. -
CURRICULUM VITAE L. Name & Institutional Affiliation: Alexander
CURRICULUM VITAE l. Name & Institutional Affiliation: Alexander Levitsky Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures Department of Slavic Studies, Box E, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 029l2 e-mail: [email protected] Telephone: (401) 863 2689 or 863 2835 FAX:(401) 863 7330 2. Home Address: 23 Ray Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02906, USA Telephone: (40l) 272-3098 3. Education (most recent first): 1977 Ph.D. University of Michigan: Dissertation Topic: The Sacred Ode (Oda Duxovnaja) in Eighteenth-Century Russian Literary Culture, Ann Arbor, l977 (Copyright, October l977) 1972 M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1970 B.A., University of Minnesota (magna cum laude) 1964 Gymnasium in Prague, Czechoslovakia (summa cum laude [straight A average]) 4. Professional appointments (most recent first): Present (from 1975) Professor (Assistant, Associate, Full), Slavic Department, Brown University 2007-2017 (and 1976-91) Director of Graduate Studies, Slavic Dept, Brown University 2007 (Spring Sem.) Visiting Professor, Harvard University 2004 (Spring Sem.) Visiting Senior Professor, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 2004 (Spring Sem.) Visit. Senior Scholar, Collegium Hieronimus Pragensis, Prague, Czech Republic 1997-2003 Chair, Dept. of Slavic Languages, Brown University 2000 (Fall Semester) Visiting Senior Professor, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 1999-present Academic Advisory Board, Collegium Hieronimus Pragensis, Czech Rep. 1993-1994 Acting Chair, Dept. of Slavic Languages, Brown University 1993-present Full Professor, Brown University l983-1993 Associate Professor, Brown University l982 (Summer Sem.) Visiting Professor, Middlebury College l977-82 Assistant Professor, Brown University l975-l976 Instructor, Brown University l975 (Summer Sem.) Lecturer, Middlebury College l974-75 Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan 5. Completed Research, Scholarship and Creative Work (291 items in chronologically set groups a-i): A.