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Book Moscow  the Fourth Rome

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  • Author : Katerina Clark
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2011-11-15
  • ISBN : 0674062892
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Moscow the Fourth Rome written by Katerina Clark and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the "Third Rome." By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals, in seeking to capture the imagination of leftist and anti-fascist intellectuals throughout the world, sought to establish their capital as the cosmopolitan center of a post-Christian confederation and to rebuild it to become a beacon for the rest of the world. Clark provides an interpretative cultural history of the city during the crucial 1930s, the decade of the Great Purge. She draws on the work of intellectuals such as Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Tretiakov, Mikhail Koltsov, and Ilya Ehrenburg to shed light on the singular Zeitgeist of that most Stalinist of periods. In her account, the decade emerges as an important moment in the prehistory of key concepts in literary and cultural studies today-transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. By bringing to light neglected antecedents, she provides a new polemical and political context for understanding canonical works of writers such as Brecht, Benjamin, Lukacs, and Bakhtin. Moscow, the Fourth Rome breaches the intellectual iron curtain that has circumscribed cultural histories of Stalinist Russia, by broadening the framework to include considerable interaction with Western intellectuals and trends. Its integration of the understudied international dimension into the interpretation of Soviet culture remedies misunderstandings of the world-historical significance of Moscow under Stalin.

Book Moscow  the Third Rome

Download or read book Moscow the Third Rome written by Nicolas Zernov and published by New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Third Rome

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  • Author : Jardar Østbø
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-03
  • ISBN : 3838268709
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book The New Third Rome written by Jardar Østbø and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on theories of political myth and concepts of nationalism, Jardar Østbø analyzes the content and ideological function of the myth of Russia as a Third Rome. Through case studies of four prominent nationalist intellectuals, Østbø shows how this messianic myth was used to reinvent Russia and its allegedly rightful place in the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Though it exists in many radically different versions, the Third Rome myth in general embodies particularism and rabid anti-Westernism. At best, it portrays Russia as an essentially isolationist country. At worst, it casts the country as superior to all other nations, divinely elected to rule the world.

Book Moscow the Third Rome

Download or read book Moscow the Third Rome written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Durham presents the excepts from "Moscow the Third Rome," written by the Russian monk Filofei. The monk urges the Moscow grand prince to protect the last Orthodox kingdom on earth. Filofei asserts that Moscow is the third Rome following the falls of Rome and Constantinople.

Book Moscow the Third Rome

Download or read book Moscow the Third Rome written by Nikolaï Mihailovitch Zernov and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Byzantium and the Rise of Russia

Download or read book Byzantium and the Rise of Russia written by John Meyendorff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the role of Byzantine diplomacy in the emergence of Moscow in the fourteenth century.

Book The Three Romes

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  • Author : Francis R. Nicosia
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351472682
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Three Romes written by Francis R. Nicosia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moscow, Constantinople (now Istanbul), and Rome itself are vitally alive in the present and are magnets for tourists. Also going back a long way, each lives in history. These cities have their points in common, each wanting to rule the world and establish Rome of the Caesars, Constantinople of the Emperors, and Moscow of the Tsars were also the Rome of St. Peter, the Constantinople of the Patriarchs, and the Moscow of the Orthodox Metropolitans. These were cities on earth that aspired to heaven, kingdoms that succeeded each other as standard-bearers of Christianity from the fourth century on. Indeed, the Russian monk declared to the Tsar: "Two Romes have fallen, but the third stands, and a fourth shall never besh the kingdom of heaven on earth. People, recognizing this, link them together as the Three Romes. These cities differ, though, in their understanding of man's nature and business. The Three Romes are three places and also states of mind. Now, with a new introduction which describes the contemporary significance to these cities this book will be assessable to the modern reader at all levels.This fascinating book weaves the past and present in a narrative that is sometimes harrowing, always vivid, and even, at times, amusing. Russell Fraser shows the reader each city as he himself saw it. He shuttles easily between today and yesterday, between today's Central Committee and Ivan the Great, between Turkish Istanbul and the golden Constantinople of Justinian, between today's Roman politics and the splendid Caesars. Great historical events, intellectual concerns, and artistic riches define the three Romes. Fraser goes beyond the facades, images, and myths to lay bare the three great psychologies still vying for the mind of man. The Three Romes is an utterly original book?a celebration of the past and an urbane guide to the present.

Book Russian History  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book Russian History A Very Short Introduction written by Geoffrey Hosking and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading international authority discusses all aspects of Russian history, from the struggle by the state to control society to the transformation of the nation into a multi-ethnic empire, Russia's relations with the West and the post-Soviet era. Original.

Book Russian Messianism

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  • Author : Peter J. S. Duncan
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002-11
  • ISBN : 1134744773
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Russian Messianism written by Peter J. S. Duncan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work will be of great interest to those engaged in politics and Russian studies, as well as professionals dealing with Russia.

Book The Song of the Sirin

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  • Author : Nicholas Kotar
  • Publisher : Waystone Press
  • Release : 2017-06-30
  • ISBN : 0998847917
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book The Song of the Sirin written by Nicholas Kotar and published by Waystone Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evil omen clouds the sky. A song of power returns. Can one man's quest save the world? Voran, a young warrior of Vasyllia, lives in a dying world. As blight ravages the countryside and darkness covers the sun, he can't avoid hearing the rumors of an ancient spirit that devours souls. He feels powerless to fight the oncoming devastation until a mythical creature entrusts him with a long-forgotten song. Legend has it that such a song can heal the masses, overthrow kingdoms, and raise humans to divine beings… Armed with the power of the song, Voran must hunt down the dark spirit before it achieves its goal of immortality. His quest takes him through doorways to other worlds and puts him on a collision course with seductive nymphs and riddling giants. With each step of the journey, the strength of the villainous spirit grows, as does Voran’s fear that the only way to save his world… is to let it be destroyed. The Song of the Sirin is an epic fantasy retelling of the Russian fairy tale Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf. If you like complex characters, creative twists on mythology, and cinematic world-building, then you’ll love Nicholas Kotar’s sweeping tale. Buy The Song of the Sirin to begin the journey today!

Book Moscow Monumental

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  • Author : Katherine Zubovich
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-01-31
  • ISBN : 0691202729
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Moscow Monumental written by Katherine Zubovich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--

Book Moscow the Third Rome

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  • Author : Dimitri Strémooukhoff
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1953
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 18 pages

Download or read book Moscow the Third Rome written by Dimitri Strémooukhoff and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rome  Constantinople  Moscow

Download or read book Rome Constantinople Moscow written by John Meyendorff and published by RSM Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time when relations between East and West have suffered numerous setbacks - in the former Soviet Union, in the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere - Meyendorff calls upon theologians to remain ecumenical in their theology. What is really at stake, he affirms, "is not the preservation of cultural categories shaped in the distant past, but the true 'catholicity' of the Christian message for the world today."

Book Moscow  the Third Rome

Download or read book Moscow the Third Rome written by Nicolas Zernov and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Tsar

Download or read book The New Tsar written by Steven Lee Myers and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president-- of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history." --

Book Two Romes

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  • Author : Lucy Grig
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 019024108X
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Two Romes written by Lucy Grig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An integrated collection of essays by leading scholars, 'Two Romes' explores the changing roles and perceptions of Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity. This examination of the 'two Romes' in comparative perspective illuminates our understanding not just of both cities but of the whole late Roman world.

Book The Third Rome

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  • Author : Mikhail Agursky
  • Publisher : Westview Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book The Third Rome written by Mikhail Agursky and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: