Maximilian Voloshin's poetic legacy and the post-Soviet Russian identity / Marianna S. Landa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landa, Marianna S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voloshin, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich, 1877-1932--Criticism and interpretation.

Voloshin, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.

Voloshin, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich, 1877-1932.

Russian poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian poetry.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"A Russian modernist poet, Maximilian Voloshin (1877-1932) gained wide acclaim after his release from Soviet censorship. Voloshin's religious and anti-totalitarian poems about Russia's and Crimea's history brought him extraordinary popularity during the two crises of Russian identity that accompanied the creation and dissolution of the USSR from 1917 through the 1920s and from 1991 through 2014. Analyzing his poems and readers' responses to them in their historical context, Landa positions Voloshin's myth of Russia as a model for national reconciliation. The book ends with the annexation of Crimea and its aftermath as Voloshin's peacemaking appeal was made relevant again for the government and the opposition: the Russians, Ukrainians, and Tatars"--Back cover.

Contents:

Part I: The Bolshevik Revolution. The years of apprenticeship

The poet of Russia during the Civil War

Poems on the red terror in the Crimea

Part II: The dissolution of the USSR. Voloshin and the Soviet past

Dreaming of a free Russia

Voloshin and Russia's religious revival

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.

ISBN:

9781137482617

1137482613

OCLC:

898092795