Napoleon In Russian Cultural Mythology
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Napoleon In Russian Cultural Mythology
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Author : Molly W. Wesling
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2001
Napoleon In Russian Cultural Mythology written by Molly W. Wesling and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 categories.
Beginning with the earliest days of his meteoric rise to power at the turn of the nineteenth century and continuing into the post-soviet era, Napoleon Bonaparte has maintained a peculiar grip on Russian popular and literary imagination. Heralded as the Messiah, condemned as the Antichrist, and lauded as the spirit of the Revolution, Napoleon invaded Russia at a critical period in its historical development, when ideas about nation and identity were beginning to take form in literature and public debate. Using traditional methods and tools of literary analysis, this book examines the figure of Napoleon in the context of uniquely Russian paradigms and myths. It analyzes the motifs, images, and plots that underlie the ongoing process of the mythologization of Napoleon and demonstrates how the speaking terms in which Russians regaled this outsider, at various moments and in different contexts, expose strategies Russians used in common to fashion their own self-image and that of their nation.
The Russian Representation Of Napoleon
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Author : Molly Williams Wesling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Russian Representation Of Napoleon written by Molly Williams Wesling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 categories.
Napoleon In The Russian Imaginary
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Author : Gary Rosenshield
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-03-08
Napoleon In The Russian Imaginary written by Gary Rosenshield and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Napoleon today is still a figure who fascinates both his admirers and detractors because of his seminal role in European history at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, straddling the French Revolution and the enormous empire that he fashioned through military conquest. Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest writers—poets, novelists, critics, and historians—to the idea of "Great Man" as an agent of transformational change as it manifests itself in the person and career of Napoleon. After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and his subsequent exile to St. Helena, in much of Europe a re-evaluation of Napoleon's person, stature, and historical significance occurred, as thinkers and writers witnessed the gradual reestablishment of repressive regimes throughout Europe. This re-evaluation in Russia would have to wait until Napoleon's death in 1821, but when it came to pass, it continued to occupy the imagination of Russia's greatest writers for over 130 years. Although Napoleon's invasion of Russia and subsequent defeat had a profound effect on Russian culture and Russian history, for Russian writers what was most important was the universal significance of Napoleon’s desire for world conquest and the idea of unbridled ambition which he embodied. Russian writers saw this, for good or ill, as potentially determining the spiritual and moral fate of future generations. What is particularly fascinating is their attempt to confront each other about this idea in a creative dialogue, with each succeeding writer addressing himself and responding to his predecessor and predecessors.
Folk Tales Of Napoleon
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Author : Aleksandr Amfiteatrov
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-05
Folk Tales Of Napoleon written by Aleksandr Amfiteatrov and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with Fiction categories.
'Folk-Tales of Napoleon' features the works of Alexander Amfiteatrov and Honore de Balzac, offering an insightful glimpse of Napoleon's personality from the perspective of the Russians and the French. With vivid storytelling and rich characterization, these two classic tales stand the test of time, revealing the complexities of one of history's most influential figures and the enduring legacy he left behind.
History And Myth In Pictorial Narratives Of The Russian Patriotic War 1812 1914
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Author : Andrew M. Nedd
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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History And Myth In Pictorial Narratives Of The Russian Patriotic War 1812 1914 written by Andrew M. Nedd and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
From The Shadow Of Empire
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Author : Olga Maiorova
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2010-08-17
From The Shadow Of Empire written by Olga Maiorova and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
As nationalism spread across nineteenth-century Europe, Russia’s national identity remained murky: there was no clear distinction between the Russian nation and the expanding multiethnic empire that called itself “Russian.” When Tsar Alexander II’s Great Reforms (1855–1870s) allowed some freedom for public debate, Russian nationalist intellectuals embarked on a major project—which they undertook in daily press, popular historiography, and works of fiction—of finding the Russian nation within the empire and rendering the empire in nationalistic terms. From the Shadow of Empire traces how these nationalist writers refashioned key historical myths—the legend of the nation’s spiritual birth, the tale of the founding of Russia, stories of Cossack independence—to portray the Russian people as the ruling nationality, whose character would define the empire. In an effort to press the government to alter its traditional imperial policies, writers from across the political spectrum made the cult of military victories into the dominant form of national myth-making: in the absence of popular political participation, wars allowed for the people’s involvement in public affairs and conjured an image of unity between ruler and nation. With their increasing reliance on the war metaphor, Reform-era thinkers prepared the ground for the brutal Russification policies of the late nineteenth century and contributed to the aggressive character of twentieth-century Russian nationalism.
Russia 1762 1825
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Author : Janet M. Hartley
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-02-28
Russia 1762 1825 written by Janet M. Hartley and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-28 with History categories.
A study of the Russian Empire at the peak of its military power and success (1762-1825), this important book examines how a country with none of the obvious trappings of modernization was able to significantly expand its territory. Russia's military and naval victories culminated in the triumphal entrance of Russian forces into Paris in 1814 in celebration of the defeat of Napoleon. Hartley's treatment is wide-ranging and discusses many aspects of the nature of the Russian state and society-not merely issues such as recruitment, but also institutional, legal, and fiscal structures of the state, the unique nature of Russian industrialization and social organization at the urban and village level, as well as the impact on cultural life. She covers the reign of two of Russia's most prominent rulers: Catherine II (1762-1796) and Alexander I (1801-25). How could a country lacking modernized structures-political, institutional, social, fiscal, economic, industrial, and cultural-sustain this level of military effort and support the largest standing army in Europe? What impact did the strain of this commitment of men and money, including the invasion of 1812, have on the state and society-particularly on those who were either conscripted or the dependents they left behind? Despite the success of the Russian state, by 1825 the strains would become almost unsustainable.
Napoleon In Russia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
Napoleon In Russia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with categories.
Napoleon The Great
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Author : Andrew Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-10-02
Napoleon The Great written by Andrew Roberts and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon It has become all too common for Napoleon Bonaparte's biographers to approach him as a figure to be reviled, bent on world domination, practically a proto-Hitler. Here, after years of study extending even to visits paid to St Helena and 53 of Napoleon's 56 battlefields, Andrew Roberts has created a true portrait of the mind, the life, and the military and above all political genius of a fundamentally constructive ruler. This is the Napoleon, Roberts reminds us, whose peacetime activity produced countless indispensable civic innovations - and whose Napoleonic Code provided the blueprint for civil law systems still in use around the world today. It is one of the greatest lives in world history, which here has found its ideal biographer. The sheer enjoyment which this book will give anyone who loves history is enormous. Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner, the Wolfson Prize for History); Masters and Commanders; and The Storm of War, which reached No. 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph.
Napoleon
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Author : Andrew Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-11-04
Napoleon written by Andrew Roberts and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times. Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century. An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Helena. He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians.