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 Info | New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993. |
| Description | x, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 92023337 |
| ISBN | 0312060726 |