..., and Kliuchevskii in relation to Kurbskii's role in Russian history. It explores fine points of interpretation and small increments of meaning that the three Russian historians had laid over or injected into the words of the Kurbskii statements. “Chosen Council” of Ivan IV The A Reinterpretation Grobovsky...

...This introductory chapter discusses historians' continued interest in the Stalin period. In their attempts to grapple with the Stalin era, polemicists and scholars traditionally have wondered about its place in Russian history, its origins. In one way or another, almost all of them have asked...

...This chapter examines how unofficial and countertraditional representations of Russian history charted subterranean relationships between the tsars and between the conceptions of collective greatness associated primarily with Peter and of historical trauma tied to Ivan's name. As the historical...

... of the historical imagination of the 1920s, which continued to see the present through the lens of Russian history and through the allegorical figures of Ivan and Peter. Anthem of the Soviet Union World War II Central Committee Committee on Artistic Affairs Kutuzov A P Kuvshinov Ia Polish Lithuanian...

... Mironenko Sergei transformational fandom Donbas as live action role playing game LARP live action role playing game LARP Donbas as Soviet Union collapse Soviet Union USSR Russian Federation Soviet legacy Russianness Russian history Russian identities self-hatred national pride Whatever...

... of Russian history, the nature of ethnicity, and the dynamics of interethnic relations, Gumilev now enjoys a degree of admiration and adulation matched by few if any other public intellectual figures in the former Soviet Union. Leading politicians, President Vladimir Putin included, are unstinting...

...This book 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 phenomenon in the pre-Soviet...

...The memoirs presented in this book offer a rare close-up account of the underground Orthodox community and its priests during some of the most difficult years in Russian history. The catacomb church in the Soviet Union came into existence in the 1920s and played a significant part in Russian...

... seldom — or never — exhibited the required perfection. This book argues that this contradictory set of ideas was far less autocratic in both theory and practice than modern stereotypes would have us believe. In comparing and contrasting Russian history with that of Western European states, the book...

... explanations of Russian history, had rendered them “all-purpose” instruments for interpreting political experience, capable of explaining any event and “predicting” any outcome. Ultimately, these qualities of multivalence and ubiquitous utility ensured that even after the revolutions of 1917, the historical...

... of Moscow Lungine Pavel Mariia Temriukovna Tsaritsa Name of Russia project Imia Rossiia Sorokin V G A Day in the Life of an Oprichnik Den' oprichnika Ianukovskii O I Mamonov P M Ivan the Terrible Peter the Great Russian history Robert Iu. Vipper Sergei F. Platonov myth making Our country...

... Pokrovskii M N Repin I E Shestakov A S Tolstoi A N Lungine Pavel Name of Russia project Imia Rossiia Tsereteli Zurab Ivan the Terrible Peter the Great Russian history Russian rulers Russia despots Now one Hero speaks to the other: “It was not in vain that we toiled, Not in vain was our joint...

... Yanov Alexander Ivan the Terrible Peter the Great Russian cultural life Aleksei N. Tolstoi Sergei Eisenstein Stalinist revisionist historiography Russian history Ivan IV […] was determined in his assaults on Livonia; their conscious aim was to give Russia access to the Baltic Sea and to open up...

...This chapter discusses Gumilev's views on Russian history. Gumilev's work on ancient and medieval history is where he made the fullest attempt to illustrate the operations and implications of his ethnogenetic theories. Although his historical research was dismissed by more orthodox academic...

... Pyotr Turgenev Ivan Eurasianism Gusev Vladimir nationalism Orthodoxy Pipes Richard Russian conservatism Russian history contemporary Russia Russian scholarship Russian nationalism This is a book about the complex ideological phenomenon known as Russian conservatism. Given the enormous...

.... The fictional traveler's investigation of the mysteries of the island (deriving from possible incest and the resulting punishment) becomes a journey back to the dark pagan origins of Russian history and a Gothic prelude to Karamzin's later historical project. The Island of Bornholm remains...