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Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880 (Hardcover)
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Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880 (Hardcover)
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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 to celebrate a literary
figure, in a country in which monuments were usually dedicated to
military or political heroes. In this richly detailed narrative
history of the Pushkin Celebration and the developments that led up
to it, Marcus C. Levitt explores the unique role of literature in
nineteenth-century Russian intellectual life and puts Russian
literary criticism, and Pushkin's posthumous reputation, into fresh
perspective. Drawing on Soviet archival materials not readily
available in the West, Levitt describes the preparations for the
monument and the unfolding of the celebration. His sustained
discussions of Turgenev's role and of Dostoevsky's famous "Pushkin
Speech" shed new light on what was for both a culminating moment in
their careers. In Levitt's view, the Pushkin Celebration
represented the articulation of liberal, post-Emancipation hopes
for an independent Russian intelligentsia and culture. His analysis
of the problems faced by Russian liberalism illuminates the failure
of concerted efforts to secure freedom of speech in
nineteenth-century Russia.
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