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- Russia's Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890–1940
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
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A wide-ranging study of empire, religious prophecy, and nationalism in literature, Russia’s Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890–1940 provides the first examination of Russia’s self-identification with Rome during a period that encompassed the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and the rise of the Soviet state. Analyzing Rome-related texts by six writers—Dmitrii Merezhkovskii, Valerii Briusov, Aleksandr Blok, Viacheslav Ivanov, Mikhail Kuzmin, and Mikhail Bulgakov—Judith E. Kalb argues that the myth of Russia as the “Third Rome” was resurrected to create a Rome-based discourse of Russian national identity that endured even as the empire of the tsars declined and fell and a new state replaced it.
Russia generally finds itself beyond the purview of studies concerned with the ongoing potency of the classical world in modern society. Slavists, for their part, have only recently begun to note the influence of classical civilization not only during Russia’s neo-classical eighteenth century but also during its modernist period. With its interdisciplinary scope, Russia’s Rome fills a gap in both Russian studies and scholarship on the classical tradition, providing valuable material for scholars of Russian culture and history, classicists, and readers interested in the classical heritage.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Note on Transliteration and Translations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction: Rome Envy
- pp. 3-33
- Conclusion: Bulgakov and Beyond
- pp. 185-201
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299229238
Related ISBN(s)
9780299229207, 9780299229245
MARC Record
OCLC
698613214
Pages
313
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2008