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1 online resource (141 pages). |
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Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe
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Literatur und Kultur im mittleren und östlichen Europa.
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Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Vasily Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Biography; The Formative Years; The Rise of Japan, the Russoâ#x80;#x90;Japanese War, and Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Continuous Intellectual Journey; Yan During the Time of World War I, the Russian Revolutions, and Civil War; The Ideological Setting of Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Novels: From Asianism to Russian Nationalism; The Rise of Russian Nationalism and Its Implications for Writing Historical Novels; Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Work in the Early 1930s; Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Book on the Creation of the Mongol Empire and Stalinist Censorship; The Attempt to Publish the Works on Mongols. |
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Response to Yan Novels Before the Great Patriotic (Sovietâ#x80;#x90;German) War, 1941â#x80;#x93;1945The War Years; Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Life During the War; Part 2: Vasily Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Works; Ideological Framework of Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Novels on the Mongols; Mongols as a â#x80;#x9C;Collective Pilateâ#x80;#x9D;: Genghis Khan and the Birth of Evil; The Great Khan and the Fedorovian Dream; Batu and the Mongol Invasion of Russia; Russians as the Enemy of Mongols: Russians as â#x80;#x9C;Collective Christâ#x80;#x9D; Unified Around the Leader; The Monolithic Unity of the Leaders and the Masses; Russians as â#x80;#x9C;Collective Christâ#x80;#x9D;; Russia as Christ and Defender of Europe. |
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The Change of the Image of the Mongols: Batu as Tough But Wise StalinConclusion; Bibliography. |
| Summary |
Vasily Yan (Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky, 1874'1954) was a writer of historical novels whose popularity survives the test of time. He was widely read throughout the Soviet era and continues to be popular in the post-Soviet era. This book is not just a biographical sketch of an important Russian/Soviet writer basically unknown to the Western public. The focus on Yan and his work also demonstrates the role of ideology in a totalitarian society. Shlapentokh shows that ideology and cultural and intellectual life in totalitarian regimes are more complex than is often assumed. Intellectuals often engaged in stressful, but'in its literary outcome'captivating "cat and mouse" games with censors, the powerful, and the government. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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IAn, V. (Vasili), 1875-1954.
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I͡An, V. (Vasiliĭ), 1875-1954 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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I͡An, V. (Vasiliĭ), 1875-1954. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Authors, Russian -- Biography.
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Authors, Russian -- Biography. |
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HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. |
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Authors, Russian. |
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Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Shlapentokh, Dmitry. Mongol Conquests in the Novels of Vasily Yan : An Intellectual Biography. La Vergne : Ibidem Press, ©2017 |
| ISBN |
3838270177 |
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9783838270173 (electronic book) |
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