LEADER 03799nam 22005655 450 001 9910806239303321 005 20190723020930.0 010 $a1-5017-3190-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501731907 035 $a(CKB)4100000006673828 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5774206 035 $a(OCoLC)1132669849 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse71280 035 $a(DE-B1597)515327 035 $a(OCoLC)1110713158 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501731907 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006673828 100 $a20190723d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRussian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880 /$fMarcus C. Levitt 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ1989 215 $a1 online resource (x, 233 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aStudies of the Harriman Institute 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8014-2250-7 320 $aBibliography: p. [217]-223. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tNote on Translations, Transliterations, and Dates -- $tIntroduction: The Pushkin Celebration of 1880 and the Crisis of Russian Culture -- $t1.The Debate Is Formulated: The Question of a Monument to Pushkin, 1837-1866 -- $t2. Those Who Kept the Light Burning: Working toward a Monument, 1869-1880 -- $t3. The Celebration That Organized Itself -- $t4. Turgenev's Last Stand -- $t5. Dostoevsky "Hijacks" the Celebration -- $tConclusion: Aftermath and Legacy:Pushkin, 1880-1987 -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn an event acknowledged to be a watershed in modern Russian cultural history, the elite of Russian intellectual life gathered in Moscow in 1880 to celebrate the dedication of a monument to the poet Alexander Pushkin, who had died nearly half a century earlier. Private and government forces joined to celebrate a literary figure, in a country in which monuments were usually dedicated to military or political heroes. In this richly detailed narrative history of the Pushkin Celebration and the developments that led up to it, Marcus C. Levitt explores the unique role of literature in nineteenth-century Russian intellectual life and puts Russian literary criticism, and Pushkin's posthumous reputation, into fresh perspective.Drawing on Soviet archival materials not readily available in the West, Levitt describes the preparations for the monument and the unfolding of the celebration. His sustained discussions of Turgenev's role and of Dostoevsky's famous "Pushkin Speech" shed new light on what was for both a culminating moment in their careers. In Levitt's view, the Pushkin Celebration represented the articulation of liberal, post-Emancipation hopes for an independent Russian intelligentsia and culture. His analysis of the problems faced by Russian liberalism illuminates the failure of concerted efforts to secure freedom of speech in nineteenth-century Russia. 410 0$aStudies of the Harriman Institute. 606 $aAuthors, Russian$y19th century$xPolitical activity 606 $aPolitics and literature$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRussian literature$y19th century$xPolitical aspects 607 $aRussia$xIntellectual life$y1801-1917 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAuthors, Russian$xPolitical activity. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aRussian literature$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a891.71/3 700 $aLevitt$b Marcus C., $01239075 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806239303321 996 $aRussian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880$93982373 997 $aUNINA