Polish Encounters, Russian Identity (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)

233 Pages·2005·2.79 MB·English

by  David L. Ransel

Polish Encounters, Russian Identity
Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies
Alexander Rabinowitch and William G. Rosenberg, general editors
Polish Encounters,
Russian Identity
Edited by David L. Ransel and Bozena Shallcross
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Polish encounters, Russian identity / edited by David L. Ransel and Bozena Shallcross.
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1. Poland—Relations—Russia. 2. Russia—Relations—Poland. 3. Nationalism—Russia—History.
4. Polish question. I. Ransel, David L. II. Shallcross, Bozena. III. Series.
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Contents
Acknowledgments / vii
Introduction: Russian Identity in Its Encounter with Poland
David L. Ransel and Bozena Shallcross / 1
1. The Irreparable Church Schism: Russian Orthodox Identity and
Its Historical Encounter with Catholicism
Barbara Skinner / 20
2. Imitation of Life: A Russian Guest in the Polish Regimental Family
Beth Holmgren / 37
3. Repositioning Pushkin and the Poems of the Polish Uprising
Megan Dixon / 49
4. Appropriating Poland: Glinka, Polish Dance, and
Russian National Identity
Halina Goldberg / 74
5. The Slavophile Thinkers and the Polish Question in 1863
Andrzej Walicki / 89
6. Dostoevsky and His Polish Fellow Prisoners from the House of the Dead
Nina Perlina / 100
7. Vladimir Solov’ëv’s Views on the Polish Question:
Poland and Reunion of the Eastern and Western Churches
Manon de Courten / 110
8. The Geopolitical Dimension of Russian-Polish Confrontation in
the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Leonid Gorizontov / 122
9. Tsar Vasilii Shuiskii, the Staszic Palace, and
Nineteenth-Century Russian Politics in Warsaw
Robert L. Przygrodzki / 144
10. At Home with Pani Eliza: Isaac Babel and His Polish Encounters
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt / 160
11. Soviet Polonophobia and the Formulation of Nationalities Policy in
the Ukrainian SSR, 1927–1934
Matthew D. Pauly / 172
Contents
12. Under the Influence? Joseph Brodsky and Poland
Irena Grudzin´ska-Gross / 189
Selected Readings / 205
Contributors / 209
Index / 211
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acknowledgments
This publication is the result of many efforts and sources of support. We
would like to mention first of all the assistance of the staff of the Russian and
East European Institute (REEI) at Indiana University, especially the work of
Assistant Director and Outreach Coordinator Denise Gardiner, who did much
of the organizational preparation for the conference that led to this volume.
Financial support came from REEI, principally through its Department of
Education Title VI grant, and from the Polish Studies Center and the Office of
International Programs at Indiana University. The dean of the Humanities
Division at the University of Chicago and the Indiana University Russian and
East European Institute also contributed small subsidies toward the publica-
tion of the volume. We are grateful for the support of these people and offices.
In addition to the intellectual contributions of each of the authors in this
work, we would like to thank Alexander Dolinin for his advice on the program
of the conference and Anna Lisa Crone, Beth Holmgren, Marci Shore, and
Nina Perlina for reading and commenting on the introduction. We are grate-
ful, too, to Janet Rabinowitch of Indiana University Press, who gave us impor-
tant advice and encouragement on the project from its very beginning to the
final edits.
DR and BS
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Polish Encounters, Russian Identity