The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture Under Tsars and Bolsheviks

ISBN-13: 9781108735872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 364 str.

Jeffrey Brooks

Opis

A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.

Recenzje

'The originality of Brooks's approach, combined with his mastery of his subject matter, as well as his terse, efficient writing style, forms a sweeping, nuanced study that in other hands might have turned out overly deterministic or clichéd.' American Historical Review

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: an age of genius; Part I. Emancipation of the Arts (1850–1889): 1. Freedom and the fool; 2. Desire and rebellion; 3. Artists and subjects; 4. Anton Chekhov in his time; 5. The writer as civic actor; Part II. Politics and the Arts (1890–1916): 6. After realism: art and authority; 7. The performing arts: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; 8. Celebrity, humor, and the avant-garde; Part III. The Bolshevik Revolution and the Arts (1917–1950): 9. A new normal; 10. Irony and power; 11. An era of the fox; 12. Goodness endures; Epilogue.