Between heaven and hell : the myth of Siberia in Russian culture / edited by Galya Diment and Yuri Slezkine.

Other author Diment, Galya.
Other author Slezkine, Yuri, 1956-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Descriptionx, 278 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Savage Christians or unorthodox Russians? The missionary dilemma in Siberia / Yuri Slezkine -- Avvakum and the genesis of Siberian literature / Bruce T. Holl -- Exiled from Siberia : the construction of Siberian experience by early-nineteenth-century Irkutsk writers / Galya Diment -- Paradoxical perceptions of Siberia : patrician and plebeian images up to the mid-1880s / James R. Gibson -- "Vo glubine sibirskikh rud": Siberia and the myth of exile / Harriet Murav -- The regionalist conception of Siberia, 1860 to 1920 / Stephen Watrous -- Lenin and the Siberian peasant insurrections / N. G. O. Pereira -- Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma / Leona Toker -- Siberia as Volia : Vasilii Shukshin's search for freedom / John Givens -- Stereotyping interethnic communication : the Siberian native in Soviet literature / Johanna Nichols -- The divided self : Yuri Rytkheu and contemporary Chukchi literature / Adele Barker -- Siberia hot and cold : reconstructing the image of Siberian indigenous peoples / Bruce Grant -- A paradise lost? Siberia and its writers, 1960 to 1990 / David Gillespie.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92023337
ISBN0312060726