DOCSLIB.ORG

Dostoevsky Forum • Форум О Достоевском

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Dostoevsky Forum • Форум О Достоевском DOSTOEVSKY STUDIES DOSTOEVSKY DOSTOEVSKY THE JOURNAL OF THE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL DOSTOEVSKY SOCIETY 23 Volume 23 - 2020 dostoevsky studies Managing Editor Stefano Aloe – Università di Verona Editorial Board Carol Apollonio – Duke University (IDS President) Satoshi Bamba – Niigata University Yuri Corrigan – Boston University Pavel E. Fokin – “Memorial flat of F. M. Dostoevsky”, Moscow Benamí Barros García – Universidad de Granada (Journal’s OJS Admin) Christoph Garstka – Ruhr-Universität Bochum Alejandro Ariel González – Sociedad Argentina Dostoievski Kate Holland – University of Toronto Sarah Hudspith – University of Leeds Boris N. Tikhomirov – Dostoevsky Museum in St Petersburg Vladimir N. Zakharov – Petrozavodsk State University Editorial Consultants: Sergey S. Shaulov (Russian texts editor) – Moscow State Literature Museum Dostoevsky Studies, founded in 1980, is the journal of the International Dostoevsky Society (IDS). The Journal is published annually by the International Dostoevsky Society & the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona. It is a peer-reviewed Journal. Languages of publication are Russian and English. Quotes to Dostoevsky’s work in the original are indicated by in-text brackets and reference to the first 30 volume Academ- ic edition: Ф. М. Достоевский, Полное собрание сочинений, в 30 тт. (Ленинград: Наука, 1972-1990), abbreviated: ПСС; or to the 35 volume current Academic edition: Ф. М. Достоевский, Полное собрание сочинений и писем, в 35 тт. (Санкт-Петербург: Наука, 2013-), abbreviated: ПССП. Copyright Notice: Authors will retain copyright of their work but give the journal first publishing rights. Articles will be simultaneously li- censed by a Creative Common License - Attribution - No Commercial Use that permits other researchers to share the work by indicating the author’s intellectual property and its first publishing in this journal not for commercial use. Authors can adhere to other license agreements not exclusive to the distribution of the published version of their work (for example: include it in an institutional archive or publish it in a monograph) as long as they indicate that it was first pub- lished in this journal. Authors can disseminate their work (for example in institutional repositories or on their personal website) before and dur- ing the submission procedure, as it can lead to advantageous exchanges and citations of the work. © 2020 Graphic design project & Layout: Erica Apolloni Mailing Address Principal Contact Support Contact Department of Foreign Stefano Aloe Benamí Barros García Languages and Literatures University of Verona Email: [email protected] University of Verona Phone: +398028409 L.ge P.ta Vittoria, 41 Email: [email protected] 37029 Verona - italy and [email protected] issn 1013-2309 1 dostoevsky studies The Journal of the International Dostoevsky Society New Series Volume XXIII, 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS • содержание FOREWORDS • вступительные слова Carol Apollonio Introductory Word . 3 Stefano Aloe Foreword and a short history of the Journal . .5 . Стефано Алоэ Вступление, или краткая история Журнала . 19. ARTICLES • статьи Deborah Martinsen The Idiot as a Tragedy of Unforgiveness . 29 Jasmina Vojvodić Лихорадочные герои романа Идиот Ф. М. Достоевского (Тело и выход из тела) . 57. Gary Rosenshield Crime and Punishment, Napoleon, and the Great Man Theory . 78 Maria Candida Ghidini Литературная искренность. Дискуссия о Достоевском и о романе во Франции в конце 1920-х годов . 105 Christoph Garstka The Enlightened West – or the Light from the East? Dostoyevski’s Construction of the Other out of Crisis . .121 . 2 DOSTOEVSKY FORUM • форум о достоевском Валентина Ветловская Современное прочтение Ф. М. Достоевского: Размышления на темы книги Х.-Ю. Геригка Литературное мастерство Достоевского в развитии: От “Записок из Мертвого дома” до “Братьев Карамазовых” (СПб.: Изд. Пушкинского Дома, Нестор-История, 2016) . 139. BOOK REVIEWS • рецензии Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak, Kate Holland (ed .), A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018) (= Cultural Syllabus) . Paperback, 535 pp . ISBN 978-1-61811-727-4 (Daniel Schümann) . 167 Raffaella Vassena, Dostoevskij post-mortem. L’eredità dostoevskiana tra editoria, stato e società (1881-1910) (Milano: Ledizioni, 2020), 204 pp . (Alessandra Visinoni) . 171 NEWS • новости Benamí Barros García Minutes from the 2019 IDS Symposium . 177 . Jordi Morillas José Luis Flores, Alejandro Ariel González Estudios Dostoievski ◆ О журнале Estudios Dostoievski . 179 . Kate Holland News from the North American Dostoevsky Society (NADS) . 181 Павел Фокин Новости из России . 183. Ikuo Kameyama News from the Dostoevsky Society of Japan . 185 Стефано Алоэ Новости из Италии . 188 Новости из Аргентины . 191 Prof Dr Rudolf Neuhäuser (1933-2020) . 192 . 3 INTRODUCTORY WORD This inaugural issue of the onlineDostoevsky Studies marks the turn of a new century – Dostoevsky’s third . As we begin a year-long, worldwide celebration of the writer’s bicentennial in 2021, we look back on a rich critical tradition, in which we proudly share . Over its fifty years in existence,Dostoevsky Studies has served as the major international journal dedicated to the writer’s work . Our journal began as the Bulletin of the International Dostoevsky Society soon after the Society’s founding in 1971 . TheBulletin grew along with the Society and became, in 1980, Dostoevsky Studies . The New Series began publication in 1993, culminating in Dostoevsky Studies 22 in 2018 . The journal has been published in Klagenfurt, Austria; Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, Idyllwild, CA (USA); and Dresden and Tübingen, Germany . With each new stage in its development, the journal has expanded its reach and responded to the spirit of the times, offering cutting-edge scholarship, forums, reviews, news of the profession, and the he- roic work of bibliographers like June Pachuta Farris, her predecessors and suc- cessors . This, the first onlineDostoevsky Studies, begins its life in Verona, Italy, with the most diverse and international Editorial Board in history, representing scholars from Dostoevsky’s homeland and from all points of the compass: Eu- rope, Asia, North America, and South America . We are proud to share the work of fine scholars from around the world in this fresh new incarnation of our journal . We welcome you into our community . Carol Apollonio, President The International Dostoevsky Society December 2020 5 FOREWORD AND A SHORT HISTORY OF THE JOURNAL A close analysis of the ways the world has read and perceived Dostoevsky at different historical moments can serve as a barometer of the evolution of hu- man thought, our priorities, hopes and fears, and our view of reality over the past one and a half centuries and up to the present day . Dostoevsky had already achieved global popularity by the end of the 19th century, and from the begin- ning of the 20th century he was already considered a leading thinker; reading and interpreting his novels became a requirement for new generations of writ- ers, philosophers, intellectuals, and ordinary people . Attention to the work of Dostoevsky, to his complex, contradictory per- sonality, to his multifaceted heritage, can be measured by the change of eras and by the metamorphoses of the modern world . A writer’s reception is of- ten accompanied by a change of paradigms, the establishment of new tasks and the emergence of new interpretations of his work . This kind of turning point in Dostoevsky reception came about fifty years ago and is symbolical- ly connected to the 150th anniversary of his birth in 1971 . At around that year, so significant for Dostoevsky studies and therefore for this journal, something simultaneously shifted in the Soviet Union and in other ideologically divided parts of the world . In the USSR in 1971 two museums dedicated to Dostoevsky opened, one in Leningrad and one in Semipalatinsk, a sign that the Soviet government was fi- nally elevating the writer from ‘disgrace’, opening up the inevitability of the state officially beginning to acknowledge his greatness . Soon afterwards, the publication of the Complete Academic Collected Works of the writer would be- gin, under the editorship of V . V . Vinogradov and later G . M . Friedlander . And in the international context, the year 1971 is significant above all as the moment of the founding of the International Dostoevsky Society (IDS) and the date of its first Symposium, held in Bad Ems (West Germany) . The previous year, one of the main pillars of the IDS, the North American Dostoevsky Society (NADS) had been founded .1 1 One of the founders of the IDS, Prof . Rudolf Neuhäuser, has written an extensive memoir of the history of the society . This work is interesting and rich in detail, but at the same time, its account of the life of the Society is very one-sided and includes a number of important inaccuracies, as pointed out by other founders of the Society, Malcolm Jones and William Mills Todd, III . See Rudolf Neuhäuser, “The International Dostoevsky Society: From the Beginnings to the End of its Existence as an Independent Voluntary Organization”, Dostoevsky Studies . New Series, Vol . 21, 2017, pp . 13-41; Malcolm V . Jones, William Mills 6 stefano aloe In February 1972, the first issue of theBulletin of the International Dostoev- sky Society was published; this modest typewritten brochure of 28 pages was the de facto first stage in the life of the current Journal Fig.( 1 and 2) . The au-
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Understanding the Roots of Collectivism and Individualism in Russia Through an Exploration of Selected Russian Literature - and - Spiritual Exercises Through Art
    Understanding the Roots of Collectivism and Individualism in Russia through an Exploration of Selected Russian Literature - and - Spiritual Exercises through Art. Understanding Reverse Perspective in Old Russian Iconography by Ihar Maslenikau B.A., Minsk, 1991 Extended Essays Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences © Ihar Maslenikau 2015 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Fall 2015 Approval Name: Ihar Maslenikau Degree: Master of Arts Title: Understanding the Roots of Collectivism and Individualism in Russia through an Exploration of Selected Russian Literature - and - Spiritual Exercises through Art. Understanding of Reverse Perspective in Old Russian Iconography Examining Committee: Chair: Gary McCarron Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication Graduate Chair, Graduate Liberal Studies Program Jerry Zaslove Senior Supervisor Professor Emeritus Humanities and English Heesoon Bai Supervisor Professor Faculty of Education Paul Crowe External Examiner Associate Professor Humanities and Asia-Canada Program Date Defended/Approved: November 25, 2015 ii Abstract The first essay is a sustained reflection on and response to the question of why the notion of collectivism and collective coexistence has been so deeply entrenched in the Russian society and in the Russian psyche and is still pervasive in today's Russia, a quarter of a century after the fall of communism. It examines the development of ideas of collectivism and individualism in Russian society, focusing on the cultural aspects based on the examples of selected works from Russian literature. It also searches for the answers in the philosophical works of Vladimir Solovyov, Nicolas Berdyaev and Vladimir Lossky.
    [Show full text]
  • Friendship Policies in Russian Religious Philosophy
    Friendship Policies in Russian Religious Philosophy Vladimir Bystrov Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Saint Petersburg University Address: Universitetskaya nabereznaya, 7/9, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation 199034 E-mail: [email protected] Sergei Dudnik Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Saint Petersburg University Address: Universitetskaya nabereznaya, 7/9, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation 199034 E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Kamnev Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Saint Petersburg University Address: Universitetskaya nabereznaya, 7/9, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation 199034 E-mail: [email protected] In antiquity, the phenomenon of friendship became the object of steadfast attention from philosophy. In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle connects the political existence of man with friendship since he believes the city (polis) can be built in analogy with friendly unions. Cicero also saw a social prototype in friendship. A gradual change in such a representation resulted in a romantic concept of friendship that is understood as the subjective, sensual bringing together of individuals, but is only accessible to few. Kant and Hegel also adhered to the romantic concept. Russian religious philosophy, on the one hand, is formed under the influence of German romanticism and the understanding of friendship peculiar to it, but, on the other hand, it returns immediately to the concept of friendship as a social construct. Kho- myakov believes that friendship is first of all established between the power and the people, and this friendly union distinguishes Russian culture from the West European culture. How- ever Russian religious-philosophical thought is distinguished by the aspiration to understand the phenomenon of friendship not in itself, but in its connection with the concepts of enmity and brotherhood.
    [Show full text]
  • We Are Sobornost’
    KRAKOW MEETINGS MAY 28–31 2017 KRAKOW KRAKOW CONFERENCES BENEDICTINE ON RUSSIAN ABBEY PHILOSOPHY IN TYNIEC VIII ALEXEI KHOMIAKOV: WE ARE SOBORNOST’ BOOK OF A B ST RA C TS International Conference Krakow Meetings 2017 May 28–31, 2017 Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec Krakow, Poland ALEXEI KHOMIAKOV: WE ARE SOBORNOST’ BOOK OF A B ST RA C TS ORGANIZERS Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Instituto de Filosofia Edith Stein in Granada International Center for the Study of the Christian Orient in Granada Committee on Philosophical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences HONORARY PATRONAGE Committee on Philosophical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences ACADEMIC BOARD Teresa Obolevitch | Krakow Artur Mrówczyński-Van Allen | Granada Paweł Rojek | Krakow ADVISORY BOARD Prof. Gennadii Aliaiev | Poltava) Prof. Konstantin Antonov | Moscow) Prof. Rev. Pavel Khondzinskii | Moscow) Prof. Marcelo López Cambronero | Granada) Prof. Daniela Steila | Turin CONFERENCE SECRETARY Olga Tabatadze | Granada ALEXEI KHOMIAKOV: WE ARE SOBORNOST’. INTEGRAL LIFE IN SLAVOPHILE THOUGHT AS AN ANSWER TO MODERN FRAG- MENTATION. THE CHURCH, EMPIRE AND THE MODERN STATE The second decade of the 21st century, which has been especially rich in events of great impor- tance to the Church, gives us a privileged position from which to try to outline a contemporary view of issues that are key to modern man—and, therefore, fundamental to theology, philosophy, and literature. The specific nature of Russian religious philosophy allows us to build a more complete interpretation of the contemporary world by avoiding the increasingly obvious tricks of modern positivist thought, and to explore the theological and philosophical intuitions of Russian thinkers, which with the passing of time seem to be ever more current and on the mark.
    [Show full text]
  • JRAT 005 01 008 Van Der Zweerde.Indd
    Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 5 (2019) 136–164 brill.com/jrat Between Mysticism and Politics: The Continuity in and Basic Pattern of Vladimir Solov’ëv’s Thought Evert van der Zweerde Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University Erasmusplein 1, 6525 HT Nijmegen, Netherlands [email protected] Abstract Vladimir Solov’ëv, informal “founder” of the current of Russian religious philosophy which gained some prominence in the early 20th C with thinkers like N. Berdyaev, S. Frank and S. Bulgakov, based his social and political philosophy as well as his pro- gram of “Christian politics” (an attempt to bring the world as close to the Kingdom of God as possible, while steering clear from any idea of “building” God’s Kingdom on Earth) on a series of personal mystical encounters with Sophia, understood by him as, simultaneously, Eternal Femininity, Divine Wisdom and World Soul. The paper argues that this vision remained the foundation of his entire world- view, despite the fact that he initially articulated a more “utopian” vision of a world- encompassing “free theoc- racy,” while later in his career he elaborated, in Opravdanie dobra [The Justification of the (Moral) Good], a more realistic, but still “ideal-theoretical” vision of a just Christian state. Highlighting the tension between Solov’ëv’s advocacy of a free and plural sphere of public debate and his own “prophetic” position based on privileged access to divine wisdom, the paper ends with a discussion of the intrinsic and unsolvable tension be- tween religion and politics, and with the claim that there is a fundamental opposition between holistic mystical visions and a recognition of the political, understood as the ubiquitous possibility of both conflict and concord among humans.
    [Show full text]
  • Shakespearean Canon in the Russian Literature at the Turn of the 18Th
    374 ЗНАНИЕ. ПОНИМАНИЕ. УМЕНИЕ 2015 — №3 AD LITTERAM DOI: 10.17805/zpu.2015.3.35 Shakespearean Сanon in the Russian Literature at the Turn of the 18th–19th Centuries* N. V. ZAKHAROV (MOSCOW UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES) The article is concerned with the problem of formation of the Shakespearean canon in the new Russian literature at the turn of the 18th–19th centuries. We define the Shakespearean canon as a corpus of original works by the British genius and adequate interpretations of his texts in theater, criticism, cinema, art, cultures of different countries and peoples. The author analyzes Alexander Sumarokov’s adaptation of “Hamlet” (1748). It was a typical neoclassical play based on Pierre>Antoine de La Place’s translation of Shakespeare (“Thйatre Anglois”, 1745–1748). However, in the author’s opinion, it was Sumarokov who introduced “Hamlet” to the Russian theatrical and reading public. The earliest mention of Shakespeare reached Russia via translations and re>translations of French and German publications. Even in the early 19th century his works would frequently be translated to Russian from French Classicist adaptations by Jean>Franc,ois Ducis (1733–1816): “Lear” by Nikolay Gnedich and “Othello” by Ivan Velyaminov were published in 1808; Stepan Viskovatov translated “Hamlet” in 1811 and Petr Korsakov adapted “Macbeth” in 1815. The influence of Shakespeare on Mikhail Muravyov is a good example of formation of the “cult of Shakespeare” and his canon in the late 18th century. Along with historian Nikolay Karamzin, Muravyov became one of the first serious admirers of Shakespeare and popularizers of his canon in Russia.
    [Show full text]
  • Imagining Japan in Moscow and Sakhalin, and Imagining Russia in Tokyo and Hokkaido : Contrasting Identities and Title Images of Other in the Center and Periphery
    Imagining Japan in Moscow and Sakhalin, and Imagining Russia in Tokyo and Hokkaido : Contrasting identities and Title images of Other in the center and periphery. Author(s) BUNTILOV, GEORGY Citation 北海道大学. 博士(教育学) 甲第13626号 Issue Date 2019-03-25 DOI 10.14943/doctoral.k13626 Doc URL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/74661 Type theses (doctoral) File Information Georgy_Buntilov.pdf Instructions for use Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers : HUSCAP Doctoral Thesis Imagining Japan in Moscow and Sakhalin, and Imagining Russia in Tokyo and Hokkaido: Contrasting identities and images of Other in the center and periphery. モスクワ及びサハリンから見た日本と東京及び北海道 から見たロシア: 中心と周辺地域における「他者」に対する日本及びロ シアのアイデンティティとイメージの対比。 BUNTILOV GEORGY Department of Multicultural Studies Graduate School of Education Hokkaido University February 25, 2018 Abstract This thesis is a comparative analysis of newspaper articles that discusses two sets of images: images of Japan as seen in Russian federal and Sakhalin newspapers, and images of Russia as seen in Japanese national newspapers and Hokkaidō Shimbun. The project employs qualitative and quantitative content analysis to investigate imagery associated with Russia and Japan in printed media, as well as discourses on national identity in Russia and Japan. This research approaches Russo-Japanese relations from two angles: border studies through analysis of media in Hokkaido and Sakhalin, and the center–periphery paradigm through analysis of national and federal media. Using an identity model based on the phenomenological concepts of Self and Other, as well as the notion of antagonism, this research analyzes national identity discourses and images of the antagonized Other-nation in the center and periphery on each side of the border.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Date 26/09/2021 02:16:02
    Poetry of the Slavophiles: Tracing Slavophile Philosophy Through 19th-Century Poetics Item Type text; Electronic Thesis Authors Thompson, Aaron Michael Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 26/09/2021 02:16:02 Item License http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579060 Abstract This is the second part of an overview of the cultural history of Slavophiles, a term applicable to those ascribing to the traditional values, especially in relation to the philosophical treatises written by Aleksey Khomyakov, Ivan Kireevsky, and their contemporaries from 1839 to the middle 1860s. Having established the troika of themes at the treatises’ foundation ­ the Russian state and Tsar, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the hierarchical governmental mir and ​ ​ sociocultural obshchina constructions present in history ­ I examine the philosophical, ​ ​ theological, and anthropological realities of poems by Khomyakov, Nikolai Yazykov, and Fyodor Tyutchev. My primary focus is on Tyutchev, a philosopher­poet and lifetime Slavophile who is known for many works which fall outside of this investigation. I will uncover and discuss how Khomyakov and Kireevsky’s ideas are conveyed through the semiotics, rhetoric, and specific poetics of three decades of Tyutchev’s oeuvre. In the end, I find that Tyutchev transversed through three phases, beginning with a personal construction of Slavdom or the Slavic obshchina, creating a relationship between Slavic and universally true good, and ​ ​ concluding with the development of the correlation between Western and evil.
    [Show full text]
  • Philosophy and Spirituality Across Cultures and Civilizations
    Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series IVA. Central and Eastern European Philosophical Studies, Volume 46 General Editor George F. McLean Philosophy and Spirituality across Cultures and Civilizations Russian Philosophical Studies, VII Edited by Nur Kirabaev Yuriy Pochta Ruzana Pskhu The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy Copyright © 2015 by The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy Box 261 Cardinal Station Washington, D.C. 20064 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Philosophy and spirituality across cultures and cilizations / edited by Nur Kirabaev, Yuriy Pochta, Ruzana Pskhu. -- first [edition]. pages cm. -- (Cultural heritage and contemporary change. Series IVA, Eastern and Central Europe ; v. 46) (Russian philosophical studies ; 7) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Philosophy--21st century--Congresses. 2. Civilization--21st century-- Congresses. 3. Spirituality--21st century--Congresses. I. Kirabaev, N. S., editor of compilation. B805.P45 2013 2013011486 100--dc23 CIP ISBN 978-1-56518-282-0 (pbk.) TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 PART I. PHILOSOPHY: DIVERSITY IN UNITY 1.1 Russian Approach Chapter I. Contemporary Challenges to Traditional 11 Values and Virtues: A Russian Case Marietta Stepanyants Chapter II. Eurasianism as a Post-revolutionary Variant of 21 the Russian Idea Michail Maslin Chapter III. Vladimir Solovyev: Justification of Philosophy 31 Vladimir Serbinenko Chapter IV. Synthesis of Theology and Science in the Philosophy 35 of History by Lev Karsavin Vasily Vanchugov Chapter V. V.D. Kudryavtsev-Platonov’s Theological and 43 Philosophical System Irina V. Tsvyk Chapter VI. The Basic Issues of Human Life in 55 N.I.Pirigov’s Philosophy Elena S.
    [Show full text]
  • TCHAIKOVSKY EDITION Liner Notes and Sung Texts
    TCHAIKOVSKY EDITION Liner notes and sung texts Liner notes A RICH, HUMANE LEGACY: THE MUSIC OF PYOTR ILYICH of Mozart’s spirit that he later paid homage in so many works TCHAIKOVSKY which turned out to be neo‐Classical avant la lettre. As Julian Barnes so elegantly demonstrated in his novel Flaubert’s Parrot, you can provide a number of selective, conflicting Even this is to limit the sheer encyclopaedic breadth of biographies around a great creative artist’s life, and any one of Tchaikovsky’s composing genius. He wrote in every medium them will be true. By those standards, one could counter Harold conceivable at the time, and if not every opus can possibly be at C. Schonberg’s thumbnail sketch of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as ‘a his highest level of inspiration, there are masterpieces in each nervous, hypochondriacal, unhappy man – unhappy at home, genre: opera, song, symphonic music, occasion‐pieces (which unhappy away from home’, with a portrait of the composer as an includes the ‘1812 Overture’ – much‐maligned, but does what it older man: confident, healthy, a keen traveller, a generous spirit says on the tin), chamber works and choral settings of the who had come to terms with his demons even if they occasionally Russian Orthodox service, which it was then regarded as popped up to haunt him, and a lover of the Russian landscape pioneering to even attempt to promote. who was very much at peace with the natural beauty of the country surroundings he had chosen as his dwelling. His first fully fledged steps in composition contradict one perceived dichotomy: between his association with the Neither image is, of course, the whole story, and it is only slowly Germanically motivated founder‐brothers of Russia’s two that the public is learning, thanks to a wider retrospective on academic institutions – the St Petersburg Conservatoire founded Tchaikovsky’s genius in the round, to balance the tabloidised first by Anton Rubinstein in 1862, and its Moscow counterpart portrait with the less sensationalised second.
    [Show full text]
  • By Anatoly Reshetnikov
    THE EVOLUTION OF RUSSIA’S GREAT POWER DISCOURSE: A CONCEPTUAL HISTORY OF VELIKAYA DERZHAVA By Anatoly Reshetnikov Submitted to Central European University Department of International Relations Word count: 88,828 In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science CEU eTD Collection Supervisor: Dr Alexander Astrov Budapest, Hungary 2018 COPYRIGHT NOTICE I hereby declare that this thesis contains no materials accepted for any other degrees in any other institutions. The thesis contains no materials previously written and/or published by another person, except where appropriate acknowledgement is made in the form of bibliographical reference. Anatoly Reshetnikov Budapest, 25 September 2018 CEU eTD Collection i ABSTRACT Today, Russia is yet again talking about being a great power. Such rhetoric emerges in almost every programmatic text written by Russian politicians, as well as in every forecast and policy analysis prepared by Russian state-affiliated think-tanks. Most western observers perceive this as a question of foreign policy and treat Russia’s claims with suspicion. At a closer look, however, it becomes evident that, instead of having an exclusive connection to foreign policy, Russia’s great power discourse is self-centered, defensive, ideological, and relates equally, if not more, to the causes of Russian domestic consolidation and catch up development. In this study, I argue that the origins of this inherent ambivalence and specific functions of Russia’s great power discourse should be sought in the conceptual evolution of velikaya derzhava, a Russian political concept that is usually translated as ‘great power’. In its current shape, velikaya derzhava is a product of both the evolution of local political culture, and Russia’s discursive encounters with external political environment, the most consequential of which was Russia’s lengthy and troubled integration into the European society of states in the XVIII and the XIX centuries.
    [Show full text]
  • 2020 Proceedings
    European Studies Center Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies European and Eurasian UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2020 Proceedings Table of Contents NATIONAL IDENTITY AND POST-SOVIET AND POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE AND ART .... 5 Searching for the Yet-Nonexistent: Contemporary Kazakhstani Poetry and Kazakh Identity Aibarsha Kazhyakpar, Nazarbayev University ......................................................................................... 6 In-Between: Interpretations of National Identity and Alienation in Post-Soviet Russian Art Erik Livingston, The College of Wooster ............................................................................................... 17 Gogol’s Dead Souls: A Slavophile in the Provinces Dalton Arrendale, University of Florida ................................................................................................. 26 LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION POLICY AND NATIONALISM ...................................................... 34 National Identity in Education: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Northern Ireland Courtney Madl, Miami University .......................................................................................................... 35 “Their Mother Tongue”: How Russia’s Language Policy Gives Voice to Nationalism Clara Giorgis, Dickinson College ........................................................................................................... 43 GENDER AND SEXUALITY ..................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Undergraduate Research Symposium
    European Studies Center Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies European and Eurasian UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2020 Proceedings Table of Contents NATIONAL IDENTITY AND POST-SOVIET AND POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE AND ART .... 5 Searching for the Yet-Nonexistent: Contemporary Kazakhstani Poetry and Kazakh Identity Aibarsha Kazhyakpar, Nazarbayev University ......................................................................................... 6 In-Between: Interpretations of National Identity and Alienation in Post-Soviet Russian Art Erik Livingston, The College of Wooster ............................................................................................... 17 Gogol’s Dead Souls: A Slavophile in the Provinces Dalton Arrendale, University of Florida ................................................................................................. 26 LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION POLICY AND NATIONALISM ...................................................... 34 National Identity in Education: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Northern Ireland Courtney Madl, Miami University .......................................................................................................... 35 “Their Mother Tongue”: How Russia’s Language Policy Gives Voice to Nationalism Clara Giorgis, Dickinson College ........................................................................................................... 43 GENDER AND SEXUALITY ..................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]