The slave soul of Russia : : moral masochism and the cult of suffering / / Daniel Rancour-Laferriere.
Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts empha...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [1995] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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