Russians have often been characterized as people with souls rather
than selves. Self and Story in Russian History challenges the
portrayal of the Russian character as selfless, self-effacing, or
self-torturing by exploring the texts through which Russians have
defined themselves as private persons and shaped their relation to
the cultural community. The stories of self under consideration
here reflect the perspectives of men and women from the last two
hundred years, ranging from westernized nobles to simple peasants,
from such famous people as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Akhmatova, and
Nicholas II to lowly religious sectarians.
Fifteen distinguished historians and literary scholars situate
the narratives of self in their historical context and show how,
since the eighteenth century, Russians have used expressive genres
-- including diaries, novels, medical case studies, films, letters,
and theater -- to make political and moral statements.
The first book to examine the narration of self as idea and
ideal in Russia, this vital work contemplates the shifting
historical manifestations of identity, the strategies of
self-creation, and the diversity of narrative forms. Its authors
establish that there is a history of the individual in Russian
culture roughly analogous to the one associated with the West.
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