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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812445403321

Titolo

Polish encounters, Russian identity / / edited by David L. Ransel and Bozena Shallcross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-07238-2

0-253-11054-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies

Altri autori (Persone)

RanselDavid L

ShallcrossBozena

Disciplina

303.48/2470438

Soggetti

Nationalism - Russia - History

Polish question

Poland Relations Russia

Russia Relations Poland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The irreparable church schism : Russian Orthodox identity and its historical encounter with Catholicism / Barbara Skinner -- Imitation of life : a Russian guest in the Polish regimental family / Beth Holmgren -- Repositioning Pushkin and the poems of the Polish uprising / Megan Dixon -- Appropriating Poland : Glinka, Polish dance, and Russian national identity / Halina Goldberg -- The Slavophile thinkers and the Polish question in 1863 / Andrzej Walicki -- Dostoevsky and his Polish fellow prisoners from the house of the dead / Nina Perlina -- Vladimir Solov'ev's views on the Polish question : Poland and reunion of the Eastern and Western churches / Manon de Courten -- The geopolitical dimension of Russian-Polish confrontation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Leonid Gorizontov -- Tsar Vasilii Shuiskii, the Staszic Palace, and nineteenth-century Russian politics in Warsaw / Robert L. Przygrodzki -- At home with Pani Eliza : Isaac Babel and his Polish encounters / Judith Deutsch Kornblatt -- Soviet polonophobia and the formulation of nationalities policy in the Ukrainian SSR 1927-1934 / Matthew D. Pauly -- Under the influence? Joseph Brodsky and Poland / Irena Grudzinska Gross.



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