Polish Encounters, Russian Identity

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments / vii Introduction: Russian Identity in Its Encounter with Poland David L. Ransel and Bozena Shallcross / 1 1. The Irreparable Church Schism: Russian Orthodox Identity and Its Historical Encounter with Catholicism Barbara Skinner / 20 2. Imitation of Life: A Russian Guest in the Polish Regimental Family Beth Holmgren / 37 3. Repositioning Pushkin and the Poems of the Polish Uprising Megan Dixon / 49 4. Appropriating Poland: Glinka, Polish Dance, and Russian National Identity Halina Goldberg / 74 5. The Slavophile Thinkers and the Polish Question in 1863 Andrzej Walicki / 89 6. Dostoevsky and His Polish Fellow Prisoners from the House of the Dead Nina Perlina / 100 7. Vladimir Solov’ëv’s Views on the Polish Question: Poland and Reunion of the Eastern and Western Churches Manon de Courten / 110 8. The Geopolitical Dimension of Russian-Polish Confrontation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Leonid Gorizontov / 122 9. Tsar Vasilii Shuiskii, the Staszic Palace, and Nineteenth-Century Russian Politics in Warsaw Robert L. Przygrodzki / 144 10. At Home with Pani Eliza: Isaac Babel and His Polish Encounters Judith Deutsch Kornblatt / 160 11. Soviet Polonophobia and the Formulation of Nationalities Policy in the Ukrainian SSR, 1927–1934 Matthew D. Pauly / 172 Contents vi 12. Under the Influence? Joseph Brodsky and Poland Irena Grudzińska-Gross / 189 Selected Readings / 205 Contributors / 209 Index / 211 ...