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Author Levitt, Marcus C

Title Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration Of 1880
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages)
Series Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Harriman Institute.
Contents Cover; Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880; Title; Copyright; 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
Summary 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 ..
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Subject Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Anniversaries, etc
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837
Russian literature -- 19th century -- Political aspects
Politics and literature -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
Authors, Russian -- 19th century -- Political activity
Anniversaries
Authors, Russian -- Political activity
Intellectual life
Politics and literature
Russian literature -- Political aspects
Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917.
Russia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501731907
1501731904