The Slave Soul Of Russia
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The Slave Soul Of Russia
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Author : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1995
The Slave Soul Of Russia written by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing humility as the mother of virtues, the trauma of the Bolshevik revolution, the current economic upheavals wracking the country-- these are only a few of the symptoms of what The Slave Soul of Russia identifies as a veritable cult of suffering that has been centuries in the making. Bringing to light dozens of examples of self-defeating activities and behaviors that have become an integral component of the Russian psyche, Rancour-Laferriere convincingly illustrates how masochism has become a fact of everyday life in Russia. Until now, much attention has been paid to the psychology of Russia's leaders and their impact on the country's condition. Here, for the first time, is a compelling portrait of the Russian people's psychology.
The Soul Of Russia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
The Soul Of 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 1916 with Russia categories.
The Soul Of Russia
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Author : Winifred Stephens Whale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
The Soul Of Russia written by Winifred Stephens Whale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918 categories.
Soul Of Russia
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Author : Chas; T. Byford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Soul Of Russia written by Chas; T. Byford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Soul Of Russia
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Author : Helen Iswolsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
Soul Of Russia written by Helen Iswolsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
Soul To Soul
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Author : Yelena Khanga
language : en
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Release Date : 1994
Soul To Soul written by Yelena Khanga and has been published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Yelena Khanga tells the compelling story of growing up black in Russia and journeying through cultures to learn about her forebears and meet relatives she had never known. From the days of slavery in the cotton fields of Mississippi to the Moscow of Stalin and Brezhnev, from Jewish New York and Harlem in the twenties to modern-day Los Angeles, Long Island, and Zanzibar, Soul to Soul is a four-generation family memoir.
True Songs Of Freedom
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Author : John MacKay
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2013-07-31
True Songs Of Freedom written by John MacKay and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-31 with History categories.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was the nineteenth century's best-selling novel worldwide; only the Bible outsold it. It was known not only as a book but through stage productions, films, music, and commercial advertising as well. But how was Stowe's novel—one of the watershed works of world literature—actually received outside of the American context? True Songs of Freedom explores one vital sphere of Stowe's influence: Russia and the Soviet Union, from the 1850s to the present day. Due to Russia's own tradition of rural slavery, the vexed entwining of authoritarianism and political radicalism throughout its history, and (especially after 1945) its prominence as the superpower rival of the United States, Russia developed a special relationship to Stowe's novel during this period of rapid societal change. Uncle Tom's Cabin prompted widespread reflections on the relationship of Russian serfdom to American slavery, on the issue of race in the United States and at home, on the kinds of writing appropriate for children and peasants learning to read, on the political function of writing, and on the values of Russian educated elites who promoted, discussed, and fought over the book for more than a century. By the time of the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Stowe's novel was probably better known by Russians than by readers in any other country. John MacKay examines many translations and rewritings of Stowe's novel; plays, illustrations, and films based upon it; and a wide range of reactions to it by figures famous (Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Marina Tsvetaeva) and unknown. In tracking the reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin across 150 years, he engages with debates over serf emancipation and peasant education, early Soviet efforts to adapt Stowe's deeply religious work of protest to an atheistic revolutionary value system, the novel's exploitation during the years of Stalinist despotism, Cold War anti-Americanism and antiracism, and the postsocialist consumerist ethos.
The Sign Of The Cross
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Author : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2011-12-31
The Sign Of The Cross written by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-31 with Art categories.
This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of the Christian sign of the cross. At its core, it traces the conscious and unconscious influence of this visual symbol through time. What began as the crucifixion of a Jewish troublemaker in Roman-occupied Judea in the first century eventually gave rise to a broad spectrum of readings of the instrument used to accomplish such a punishment, a cross. The author argues that Jesus was a provocative, grandiose masochist whose suffering and death initially signified redemption for believers. This idea gradually morphed into a Christian sense of freedom to persecute and wage war against non-believers, however, as can be seen in the Crusades ("wars of the cross"). Many believers even construed the murder of their savior as a crime perpetrated by "the Jews," and this paranoid notion culminated in the mass murder of European Jews under the sign of the Nazi hooked cross (Hakenkreuz). Rancour-Laferriere’s book is expertly written and argued; it will be readable to a large audience because it touches on many areas of controversy, interest, and scholarship. The work is critical, but not unfair; it employs psychoanalysis, art history (the study of the symbol of the cross in works of art), religion and religious texts, and world history generally. The interweaving of these various themes is what gives this work its ability to draw in readers—and will ultimately be what keeps the reader interested through the conclusion.
Soul Of Russia
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Author : Hélène Iswolsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
Soul Of Russia written by Hélène Iswolsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Religious thought categories.
Four Russian Serf Narratives
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Author : John MacKay
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2009-11-24
Four Russian Serf Narratives written by John MacKay 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 2009-11-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Although millions of Russians lived as serfs until the middle of the nineteenth century, little is known about their lives. Identifying and documenting the conditions of Russian serfs has proven difficult because the Russian state discouraged literacy among the serfs and censored public expressions of dissent. To date scholars have identified only twenty known Russian serf narratives. Four Russian Serf Narratives contains four of these accounts and is the first translated collection of autobiographies by serfs. Scholar and translator John MacKay brings to light for an English-language audience a diverse sampling of Russian serf narratives, ranging from an autobiographical poem to stories of adventure and escape. “Autobiography” (1785) recounts a highly educated serf’s attempt to escape to Europe, where he hoped to study architecture. The long testimonial poem “News About Russia” (ca. 1849) laments the conditions under which the author and his fellow serfs lived. In “The Story of My Life and Wanderings” (1881) a serf tradesman tells of his attempt to simultaneously escape serfdom and captivity from Chechen mountaineers. The fragmentary “Notes of a Serf Woman” (1911) testifies to the harshness of peasant life with extraordinary acuity and descriptive power. These accounts offer readers a glimpse, from the point of view of the serfs themselves, into the realities of one of the largest systems of unfree labor in history. The volume also allows comparison with slave narratives produced in the United States and elsewhere, adding an important dimension to knowledge of the institution of slavery and the experience of enslavement in modern times.