This book is the first interdisciplinary treatment of the cultural significance of the Decembrists' mythic image in Russian literature, history, film and opera in a survey of its deployment as cultural trope since the original 1825 rebellion and through the present day. INDICE: - Introduction - The Decembrist Myth in the Nineteenth Century - Literariness and Self-Fashioning in the Decembrists' Memoirs - The Image in Flux in the Early Twentieth-Century - The Battle over Representation during the Centennial - Centennial Representations in Fiction and Film - Re-Writing Russian History: Stalin Era Representations - The Decembrists and Dissidence: Myth and Anti-Myth from the 1960s-1980s - The Decembrists' De-Sacralization in the Glasnost and Post-Soviet Eras - Epilogue
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61916-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés