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National characteristics, Russian, in literature. --- Fiction --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Russian authors --- History and criticism.

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Russian literature --- Sex in literature. --- Authors, Russian --- Decadence (Literary movement) --- Russian authors --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism. --- Attitudes. --- History and criticism

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Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980's and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings, Irina Paperno explores this massive outpouring of human documents to uncover common themes, cultural trends, and literary forms. The book argues that, diverse as they are, these narratives-memoirs, diaries, notes, blogs-assert the historical significance of intimate lives shaped by catastrophic political forces, especially the Terror under Stalin and World War II. Moreover, these published personal documents create a community where those who lived through the Soviet era can gain access to the inner recesses of one another's lives. This community strives to forge a link to the tradition of Russia's nineteenth-century intelligentsia; thus the Russian "intelligentsia" emerges as an additional implicit subject of this book. The book surveys hundreds of personal accounts and focuses on two in particular, chosen for their exceptional quality, scope, and emotional power. Notes about Anna Akhmatova is the diary Lidiia Chukovskaia, a professional editor, kept to document the day-to-day life of her friend, the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Evgeniia Kiseleva, a barely literate former peasant, kept records in notebooks with the thought of crafting a movie script from the story of her life. The striking parallels and contrasts between these two documents demonstrate how the Soviet state and the idea of history shaped very different lives and very different life stories. The book also analyzes dreams (most of them terror dreams) recounted in the diaries and memoirs of authors ranging from a peasant to well-known writers, a Party leader, and Stalin himself. History, Paperno shows, invaded their dreams, too. With a sure grasp of Russian cultural history, great sensitivity to the men and women who wrote, and a command of European and American scholarship on life writing, Paperno places diaries and memoirs of the Soviet experience in a rich historical and conceptual frame. An important and lasting contribution to the history of Russian culture at the end of an epoch, Stories of the Soviet Experience also illuminates the general logic and specific uses of personal narratives.

Autobiographical memory --- Autobiography. --- Russian prose literature --- Memory --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Soviet Union --- Intellectual life. --- History. --- Intellectual life --- History --- Russian authors. --- Autobiography of Russians --- Russian autobiography

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“At last, Russia has begun to speak in a truly original voice.” So said Anatoly Vaneev, a Soviet dissident who became Karsavin’s disciple in the Siberian gulag where the philosopher spent his last two years. The book traces the unusual trajectory of this inspiring voice: Karsavin started his career as Russia’s brightest historian of Catholic mysticism; however, his radical methods – which were far ahead of their time – shocked his conservative colleagues. The shock continued when Karsavin turned to philosophy, writing flamboyant and dense essays in a polyphonic style, which both Marxists and religious traditionalists found provocative. There was no let-up after he was expelled by Lenin from Soviet Russia: in exile, he became a leading theorist in the Eurasian political movement, combining Orthodox theology with a left-wing political orientation. Finally, Karsavin found stability when he was invited to teach history in Lithuania: there he spent twenty years reworking his philosophy, before suffering the German and Soviet invasions of his new homeland, and then deportation and death. Clearing away misunderstandings and putting the work and life in context, this book shows how Karsavin made an original contribution to European philosophy, inter-religious dialogue, Orthodox and Catholic theology, and the understanding of history.

Philosophers --- Authors, Russian --- Historians --- Authors, Russian. --- Historians. --- Philosophers. --- Scholars --- Historiographers --- Russian authors --- Karsavin, L. P. --- Карсавин, Л. П. --- Карсавин, Лев Платонович, --- Karsavin, Lev Platonovich, --- Karsavinas, Levas, --- Karsavinas, Leonas, --- Karsavine, Lev, --- Karsawin, L. P., --- 1900-1999 --- Russia. --- 1917 --- Rosja --- Rossīi͡ --- Rossīĭskai͡a Imperīi͡ --- Ṛusastan --- Russian Empire --- Russie --- Russland

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The theme of the peasantry is central throughout most of Tolstoy's long career. His obsession with this class is seen not just as a matter of social or humanitarian concern, but as a response to the questions of "how to live a good life" and "what is the meaning of life that an inevitable death will not destroy?" These questions plagued him his entire life. The letters he exchanged with the four major peasant sectarian writers (Bondarev, Zheltov, Verigin, and Novikov) reveal that Tolstoy was matched as a profound thinker by his correspondents, as they converse on religious-moral questions, the meaning of life and how one should strive to find it, and on a wide array of burning social and personal problems. Reading through the analysis and the extensively annotated letters as a unified whole, elucidates the progressive development of the ideas they shared (and where these diverged) and which guided Tolstoy's and his correspondents' lives. Juxtaposing Tolstoy's letters with those of his four sectarian correspondents makes them even more significant as it shows them in their original context -- a dialogue, or conversation. Also, with the aim to present the conversation in an even broader context, Andrew Donskov briefly discusses Tolstoy's relationship with peasants in general as well as with each of the four individual writers in particular. In addition, he provides a background sketch of two major religious groups, namely the Doukhobors and the Molokans, both of which still claim sizeable populations of followers in North America today.

Dissenters, Religious --- Authors, Russian --- Peasants as authors --- Peasants' writings, Russian. --- Russian peasants' writings --- Authors --- Russian authors --- Believers' church --- Conformity (Religion) --- Nonconformists, Religious --- Nonconformity (Religion) --- Protestant dissenters --- Separatism (Religion) --- Congregationalism --- Dissenters --- Established churches --- Free churches --- Liberty of conscience --- Sects --- History --- History. --- Tolstoy, Leo, --- Bondarev. --- Correspondence. --- Doukhobors. --- Leo Tolstoy. --- Letters. --- Molokans. --- Novikov. --- Peasantry. --- Tolstoy. --- Verigin. --- Zheltovv. --- analyse de classe. --- class analysis. --- letters. --- lettres. --- paysannerie. --- peasant sectarian writers. --- peasantry. --- problèmes sociaux. --- questions de moralité. --- questions de religion. --- religious-moral questions. --- social problems. --- écrivains sectaires.