Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880 / / Marcus C. Levitt.
In 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 t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Translations, Transliterations, and Dates
- Introduction: The Pushkin Celebration of 1880 and the Crisis of Russian Culture
- 1.The Debate Is Formulated: The Question of a Monument to Pushkin, 1837-1866
- 2. Those Who Kept the Light Burning: Working toward a Monument, 1869-1880
- 3. The Celebration That Organized Itself
- 4. Turgenev's Last Stand
- 5. Dostoevsky "Hijacks" the Celebration
- Conclusion: Aftermath and Legacy:Pushkin, 1880-1987
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index