Jeffrey Brooks

The Firebird and the Fox

Russian Culture Under Tsars and Bolsheviks

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Produktbeschreibung

A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781108484466
• ISBN-10: 1108484468
• Artikelnr.: 56714829

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Brooks is Professor in the Department of History at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of When Russia Learned to Read (1985), which was awarded the 1986 Wayne S. Vucinich Prize, Thank You, Comrade Stalin (1999), and Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State (2006), with Georgiy Chernyavskiy.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction: an age of genius
Part I. Emancipation of the Arts (1850-1889): 1. Freedom and the fool
2. Desire and rebellion
3. Artists and subjects
4. Anton Chekhov in his time
5. The writer as civic actor
Part II. Politics and the Arts (1890-1916): 6. After realism: art and authority
7. The performing arts: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
8. Celebrity, humor, and the avant-garde
Part III. The Bolshevik Revolution and the Arts (1917-1950): 9. A new normal
10. Irony and power
11. An era of the fox
12. Goodness endures
Epilogue.