Russian literature and empire

Susan Layton

earliest edition we have, 1995 Cambridge University Press, 1994 hardcover 354 pages

Cambridge studies in Russian literature

This is the first book to provide a synthesizing study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. From Pushkin's ambivalent portrayal of an alpine Circassia to Tolstoy's condemnation of tsarist aggression against Muslim tribes in Hadji Murat, the literary analysis is firmly set in its historical context, and the responses of the Russian readership to receive extensive...

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Russian Literature and Empire edition · 2011 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511883422
Russian Literature and Empire edition · 2009 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511554094
Russian literature and empire hardcover · 1994 · Cambridge University Press · 354 pages · 9780521444439

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