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Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution - figures such as Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail Lermontov - "Epic Revisionism" tells the fascinating story of these individuals' return to canonical status during the darkest days of the Stalin era. An inherently interdisciplinary project, "Epic Revisionism" features pieces on literary and cultural history, film, opera, and theater. It pairs scholarly essays with selections from Stalin-era primary sources - newspaper articles, unpublished archival documents, short stories - to provide students and specialists with the richest possible understanding of this understudied phenomenon in modern Russian history.

ISBN

9780299215040

Publication Date

2006

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

City

Madison, WI

Keywords

Russian history, Russian Literature, Stalin era

School

School of Arts and Sciences

Department

History

Disciplines

Creative Writing | European History | Slavic Languages and Societies | Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies

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Edited By: Kevin M. F. Platt and David Brandenberger

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[Introduction to] Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda

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