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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784581403321

Autore

Ransel David L

Titolo

Polish Encounters, Russian Identity [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-282-07238-2

0-253-11054-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies Polish encounters, Russian identity

Altri autori (Persone)

ShallcrossBozena

Disciplina

303.482470438

Soggetti

Nationalism

Poland - Relations - Russia

Nationalism - History - Russia

Polish question

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Eastern Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Russian Identity in Its Encounter with Poland; 1. The Irreparable Church Schism; 2. Imitation of Life; 3. Repositioning Pushkin and the Poems of the Polish Uprising; 4. Appropriating Poland; 5. The Slavophile Thinkers and the Polish Question in 1863; 6. Dostoevsky and His Polish Fellow Prisoners from the House of the Dead; 7. Vladimir Solov'ev's Views on the Polish Question; 8. The Geopolitical Dimension of Russian-Polish Confrontation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

9. Tsar Vasilii Shuiskii, the Staszic Palace, and Nineteenth-Century Russian Politics in Warsaw10. At Home with Pani Eliza; 11. Soviet Polonophobia and the Formulation of Nationalities Policy in the Ukrainian SSR, 1927-1934; 12. Under the Influence? Joseph Brodsky and Poland; Selected Readings; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

At a time when Poland is emphasizing its distance from Russia, Polish                Encounters, Russian Identity points to the historical ties and mutual influences of                these two great Slavic peoples. Whether Poland



adopted a hostile or a friendly                stance toward Russia, the intense responses of Russian thinkers, writers, and                political leaders to Poland and to Polish culture shaped Russians' idea of                themselves and their place in the world. Countering the recent trend to deny the                rich interactions between Russia and Pol