Publisher: Indiana University Press, USA, 2005. 232 pages.
Language: English.
Polish Encounters, Russian Identity points to the historical ties and mutual influences of these two great Slavic peoples. Whether Poland adopted a hostile or a friendly stance toward Russia, the intense responses of Russian thinkers, writers, and political leaders to Poland and to Polish culture shaped Russian idea of themselves and their place in the world. Countering the recent trend to deny the rich interactions between Russia and Poland, this collection reminds readers that these longstanding, if often difficult, contacts constitute an important and enduring element in the consciousness of the peoples of both countries.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Russian Identity in Its Encounter with Poland
The Irreparable Church Schism: Russian Orthodox Identity and Its Historical Encounter with Catholicism
Imitation of Life: A Russian Guest in the Polish Regimental Family
Repositioning Pushkin and the Poems of the Polish Uprising
Appropriating Poland: Glinka, Polish Dance, and Russian National Identity
The Slavophile Thinkers and the Polish Question in 1863
Dostoevsky and His Polish Fellow Prisoners from the House of the Dead
Vladimir Solov’?v’s Views on the Polish Question: Poland and Reunion of the Easte and Weste Churches
The Geopolitical Dimension of Russian-Polish Confrontation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Tsar Vasilii Shuiskii, the Staszic Palace, and Nineteenth-Century Russian Politics in Warsaw
At Home with Pani Eliza: Isaac Babel and His Polish Encounters
Soviet Polonophobia and the Formulation of Nationalities Policy in the Ukrainian SSR, 1927–1934
Under the Influence? Joseph Brodsky and Poland
Selected Readings
Contributors
Index
Polish Encounters, Russian Identity points to the historical ties and mutual influences of these two great Slavic peoples. Whether Poland adopted a hostile or a friendly stance toward Russia, the intense responses of Russian thinkers, writers, and political leaders to Poland and to Polish culture shaped Russian idea of themselves and their place in the world. Countering the recent trend to deny the rich interactions between Russia and Poland, this collection reminds readers that these longstanding, if often difficult, contacts constitute an important and enduring element in the consciousness of the peoples of both countries.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Russian Identity in Its Encounter with Poland
The Irreparable Church Schism: Russian Orthodox Identity and Its Historical Encounter with Catholicism
Imitation of Life: A Russian Guest in the Polish Regimental Family
Repositioning Pushkin and the Poems of the Polish Uprising
Appropriating Poland: Glinka, Polish Dance, and Russian National Identity
The Slavophile Thinkers and the Polish Question in 1863
Dostoevsky and His Polish Fellow Prisoners from the House of the Dead
Vladimir Solov’?v’s Views on the Polish Question: Poland and Reunion of the Easte and Weste Churches
The Geopolitical Dimension of Russian-Polish Confrontation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Tsar Vasilii Shuiskii, the Staszic Palace, and Nineteenth-Century Russian Politics in Warsaw
At Home with Pani Eliza: Isaac Babel and His Polish Encounters
Soviet Polonophobia and the Formulation of Nationalities Policy in the Ukrainian SSR, 1927–1934
Under the Influence? Joseph Brodsky and Poland
Selected Readings
Contributors
Index