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Ljunggren Magnus |
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Titolo |
Fifty-Five Years with Russia / / Magnus Ljunggren ; translated by Charles Rougle |
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Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (102 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Collana |
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Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History |
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Disciplina |
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Russian literature - Study and teaching |
Soviet literature - Study and teaching |
Litterateurs - Sweden |
Slavists - Sweden |
Scholars - Sweden |
Intellectuals - Soviet Union |
Intellectuals - Russia (Federation) |
Electronic books. |
Soviet Union Intellectual life |
Russia (Federation) Intellectual life |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Fifty-Five Years with Russia -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The academic career of internationally recognized Professor of Slavic Studies Magnus Ljunggren spans more than a half century. Here he looks back over his meetings with prominent members of the Russian intelligentsia who from the liberalizing XXII Party Congress in 1961 and down to the present have in various forms struggled with the totalitarian structures of Soviet and post-Soviet society. As a literary scholar Ljunggren has focused on Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg, Russian Symbolism and Russian Silver Age literature and culture. His memoirs reflect on how his study of Symbolism and his commitment to the Russian civil rights movement over the years have stimulated each other and contributed to a deeper understanding of Russia's distinctive |
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character. Ljunggren's gallery of intimate and colorful portraits includes Bulat Okudzhava, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Joseph Brodsky, Viktor Shklovsky, Lidia Chukovskaya, and Nina Berberova. |
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