Terror and Greatness : : Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths / / Kevin M. F. Platt.
In this ambitious book, Kevin M. F. Platt focuses on a cruel paradox central to Russian history: that the price of progress has so often been the traumatic suffering of society at the hands of the state. The reigns of Ivan IV (the Terrible) and Peter the Great are the most vivid exemplars of this ph...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) :; 2 color plates, 25 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction. Toward a Cultural Historiography of Rus sia
- Chapter one. Liminality
- Chapter two. Trauma
- Chapter three. Filicide
- Chapter four. Prognostication
- Chapter five. Rehabilitation
- Chapter six. Repetition
- Conclusion: Redux
- Selected Bibliography
- Index