Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906839
Alexander Semyonov
SUMMARY: The Conversations with Authors series in this issue features an interview with Stuart Ward, who discusses his new book Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The conversation covers the question of the entanglement of Britishness and the British Empire, lacunae in approaches to nationalism that do not take imperial contexts seriously, the analytical shortfalls of juxtaposing empire and nationalism in the context of modern and global history, and challenges of the global history of empires and comparative research on empires. The interview also touches on the Stuart Ward's novel perspective on the historical semantics of the concept of decolonization and the vantage point such historical reconstruction provides for the historical narratives of decolonization. The latter will be of special interest to the readers of Ab Imperio in view of recent heightened interest in decolonization in the field of Russian and Soviet history. Резюме: В этом номере журнала в серии "Разговор с автором" публикуется интервью со Стюартом Уордом, историком британской империи и деколонизации, автором вышедшей в этом году монографии "Рассоединенное Королевство: Глобальная история заката Британии" – Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023). В интервью обсуждаются такие проблемы, как соотношение британской идентичности и Британской империи, аналитические ограничения классических подходов к изучению национализма, не учитывающих имперский контекст, критика устоявшегося историографического тезиса о противопоставлении империи и национализма в период Новой и Новейшей истории, а также применения сравнительного исторического метода к истории модерных имперских формаций. Интервью также затрагивает предложенную Уордом новаторскую интерпретацию исторической семантики феномена деколонизации и то, какие импликации эта реконструкция содержит для исторических нарративов деколонизации. Последний аспект будет особо интересен читателям Ab Imperio в свете возросшего в последнее время интереса к деколонизации в сфере исследований Российской империи и СССР.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906857
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906837
SUMMARY:The Conversations with Authors series in this issue features an interview with Stuart Ward, who discusses his new book Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The conversation covers the question of the entanglement of Britishness and the British Empire, lacunae in approaches to nationalism that do not take imperial contexts seriously, the analytical shortfalls of juxtaposing empire and nationalism in the context of modern and global history, and challenges of the global history of empires and comparative research on empires. The interview also touches on the Stuart Ward's novel perspective on the historical semantics of the concept of decolonization and the vantage point such historical reconstruction provides for the historical narratives of decolonization. The latter will be of special interest to the readers of Ab Imperio in view of recent heightened interest in decolonization in the field of Russian and Soviet history.Резюме:В этом номере журнала в серии "Разговор с автором" публикуется интервью со Стюартом Уордом, историком британской империи и деколонизации, автором вышедшей в этом году монографии "Рассоединенное Королевство: Глобальная история заката Британии" – Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023). В интервью обсуждаются такие проблемы, как соотношение британской идентичности и Британской империи, аналитические ограничения классических подходов к изучению национализма, не учитывающих имперский контекст, критика устоявшегося историографического тезиса о противопоставлении империи и национализма в период Новой и Новейшей истории, а также применения сравнительного исторического метода к истории модерных имперских формаций. Интервью также затрагивает предложенную Уордом новаторскую интерпретацию исторической семантики феномена деколонизации и то, какие импликации эта реконструкция содержит для исторических нарративов деколонизации. Последний аспект будет особо интересен читателям Ab Imperio в свете возросшего в последнее время интереса к деколонизации в сфере исследований Российской империи и СССР.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906851
Reviewed by: In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS "Galicia" Division and Its Legacy by Myroslav Shkandrij Per A. Rudling (bio) Myroslav Shkandrij, In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS "Galicia" Division and Its Legacy ( Montreal&Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023). 424 pp., ill. References. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-1653-3. The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) occupies a central place in the Ukrainian diaspora's pantheon of heroes of the fatherland. Since 1945, its legacy has been the object of intense debate. Myroslav Shkandrij's book is one of few scholarly works on the unit and, to date, the most ambitious. A professor emeritus of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba, Shkandrij was raised in the United Kingdom, in the Ukrainian émigré community dominated by the Bandera wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN(b). For Shkandrij, working on the Galizian SS also means to a considerable degree writing family history. His father was a volunteer in the Waffen-SS (P. xvii), his father in-law was the editor of Krakivs'ki visti, the leading Ukrainian-language newspaper in Hans Frank's General Government. Shkandrij has a lifetime of experience with the Ukrainian diaspora, with a political background in far left, Trotskyite activism (P. xvii). The author's motivations for writing the book are personal; it is obvious that Shkandrij is stung by depictions of the Ukrainian Waffen-SS men in mainstream media, which, he argues, "showed no interest in what the veterans had experienced. Instead the coverage revelled in a nightmarish image of monsters 'living next door'" (P. xvii). This, Shkandrij writes, "did not square with my personal experience" (P. xvii). Shkandrij set out to challenge negative depictions of the unit, also taking on "the most controversial issues" (P. 4). In line with trends in North American academia, the book contains a trigger warning (P. xviii). The book is divided into five sections; "Motives," "Actions," "Camps," "Stories," and "Reappraisals." The first two sections – on background and military history are relatively short (Pp. 15–158) and based mostly on literature published by the Waffen-SS veterans themselves. Of the subsections, chapter 7, on the Galician SS Volunteer regiments, counts among the strongest, though it closely follows the work of Michael Melnyk, a chronicler of the unit – and, like Shkandrij, the son of a Waffen-SS volunteer. Though well-written, this section offers little that is new. Particularly notable is the near-total absence of German-language sources; a handful of references, cited in secondary sources, are given as "Bundesarkhiv [End Page 220] [sic], Berlin" and "Budesarkhiv [sic] Aussenstelle Ludwigsberg [sic]" (Pp. xi, 389) and are both misspelled. Limited knowledge of German may offer a partial explanation for the book's imbalance in regard to sources. Jewish voices about the division's activities are absent. Much stronger is Shkandrij's section on the postwar
书评:在大漩涡中:武装党卫军“加利西亚”分部及其遗产，作者:Myroslav Shkandrij Per A. Rudling(传记)，《在大漩涡中:武装党卫军“加利西亚”分部及其遗产》(蒙特利尔和金斯顿:麦吉尔-皇后大学出版社，2023)。424页，伊利诺伊州。参考文献索引。ISBN: 978-0-2280-1653-3。党卫军第14步兵掷弹兵师(加利西亚第1师)在乌克兰侨民祖国英雄的万神殿中占有中心地位。自1945年以来，它的遗产一直是激烈辩论的对象。Myroslav Shkandrij的书是为数不多的关于这个单位的学术著作之一，也是迄今为止最雄心勃勃的著作。Shkandrij是曼尼托巴大学斯拉夫研究荣誉教授，在联合王国由乌克兰民族主义者组织班德拉分支主导的乌克兰移徙者社区长大(b)。对于Shkandrij来说，在加利西亚党卫军工作在很大程度上也意味着书写家族史。他的父亲是武装党卫队(第17党)的一名志愿者，他的岳父是克拉基夫斯ki visti的编辑，这是汉斯·弗兰克政府的主要乌克兰语报纸。Shkandrij一生都在与乌克兰侨民打交道，他的政治背景是极左翼的托洛茨基主义(P. xvii)。作者写这本书的动机是个人的;很明显，主流媒体对乌克兰武装党卫军的描述刺痛了Shkandrij，他认为，这些媒体“对老兵的经历毫无兴趣”。相反，报道中充斥着怪物“住在隔壁”的噩梦般的形象(P. xvii)。这，Shkandrij写道，“与我的个人经验不符”(P. xvii)。Shkandrij开始挑战对该单位的负面描述，也采取了“最具争议的问题”(P. 4)。与北美学术界的趋势一致，这本书包含了触发警告(P. xviii)。这本书分为五个部分;“动机”，“行动”，“阵营”，“故事”和“重新评价”。前两部分——背景和军事历史相对较短(第15-158页)，主要基于武装党卫军老兵自己发表的文献。在这些小节中，关于加利西亚党卫军志愿团的第七章是最有力的章节之一，尽管它与该部队的编年史家迈克尔·梅尔尼克(Michael Melnyk)的作品密切相关，他和Shkandrij一样，都是一名武装党卫军志愿军的儿子。虽然这一部分写得很好，但没有什么新意。特别值得注意的是，几乎完全没有德语来源;在第二手资料中引用的少数参考文献被称为“Bundesarkhiv [End Page 220][原文如此]，Berlin”和“Budesarkhiv[原文如此]Aussenstelle Ludwigsberg[原文如此]”(第xi页，389页)，两者都拼写错误。有限的德语知识可以部分解释这本书在来源方面的不平衡。犹太人对该部门的活动没有意见。Shkandrij关于战后时期的部分更有说服力，正如他正确指出的那样，“尤其被忽视了”，尤其是关于“拘留营的生活和移民”，甚至是“士兵的个人经历或他们的政治观点”。Shkandrij开始扩大视野，使用“回忆录、采访和档案材料，现在的叙述检查了历史的这些方面”(第5页)。他成为我们在武装党卫军丰富而相当原创的艺术创作中的陪伴者。这里有丰富的文学、艺术、音乐、戏剧，甚至还有党卫军制作的灰姑娘邮票的集邮文化，Shkandrij把这些邮票从遗忘中拯救了出来。特别是第三和第四部分，分别是“集中营”和“故事”，必须被视为本书最有力的部分，特别是在描述1945年至1949年在意大利里米尼集中营的退伍军人监禁时。“故事”部分通过审讯报告、采访、媒体、诗歌、回忆录和小说，让人们一窥老兵们戏剧性的生活。在这里，成熟的文学学者Shkandrij是在他的元素;诗歌翻译得很优雅，文学分析和作者传记研究得很好，这种不被认可的文学作品的作用也得到了很好的体现。事实上，许多党卫军志愿者都是非常有才华、有文化、有政治献身精神的人。他们在政治和学术界的影响是相当大的:两名党卫军退伍军人担任……
{"title":"In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS \"Galicia\" Division and Its Legacy by Myroslav Shkandrij (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/imp.2023.a906851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a906851","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS \"Galicia\" Division and Its Legacy by Myroslav Shkandrij Per A. Rudling (bio) Myroslav Shkandrij, In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS \"Galicia\" Division and Its Legacy ( Montreal&Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023). 424 pp., ill. References. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-1653-3. The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) occupies a central place in the Ukrainian diaspora's pantheon of heroes of the fatherland. Since 1945, its legacy has been the object of intense debate. Myroslav Shkandrij's book is one of few scholarly works on the unit and, to date, the most ambitious. A professor emeritus of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba, Shkandrij was raised in the United Kingdom, in the Ukrainian émigré community dominated by the Bandera wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN(b). For Shkandrij, working on the Galizian SS also means to a considerable degree writing family history. His father was a volunteer in the Waffen-SS (P. xvii), his father in-law was the editor of Krakivs'ki visti, the leading Ukrainian-language newspaper in Hans Frank's General Government. Shkandrij has a lifetime of experience with the Ukrainian diaspora, with a political background in far left, Trotskyite activism (P. xvii). The author's motivations for writing the book are personal; it is obvious that Shkandrij is stung by depictions of the Ukrainian Waffen-SS men in mainstream media, which, he argues, \"showed no interest in what the veterans had experienced. Instead the coverage revelled in a nightmarish image of monsters 'living next door'\" (P. xvii). This, Shkandrij writes, \"did not square with my personal experience\" (P. xvii). Shkandrij set out to challenge negative depictions of the unit, also taking on \"the most controversial issues\" (P. 4). In line with trends in North American academia, the book contains a trigger warning (P. xviii). The book is divided into five sections; \"Motives,\" \"Actions,\" \"Camps,\" \"Stories,\" and \"Reappraisals.\" The first two sections – on background and military history are relatively short (Pp. 15–158) and based mostly on literature published by the Waffen-SS veterans themselves. Of the subsections, chapter 7, on the Galician SS Volunteer regiments, counts among the strongest, though it closely follows the work of Michael Melnyk, a chronicler of the unit – and, like Shkandrij, the son of a Waffen-SS volunteer. Though well-written, this section offers little that is new. Particularly notable is the near-total absence of German-language sources; a handful of references, cited in secondary sources, are given as \"Bundesarkhiv [End Page 220] [sic], Berlin\" and \"Budesarkhiv [sic] Aussenstelle Ludwigsberg [sic]\" (Pp. xi, 389) and are both misspelled. Limited knowledge of German may offer a partial explanation for the book's imbalance in regard to sources. Jewish voices about the division's activities are absent. Much stronger is Shkandrij's section on the postwar","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135445113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906845
Reviewed by: Россия и ее империя 1450–1801 by Нэнси Коллманн Алина Мезенова (bio) and Александр Белоусов (bio) Нэнси Коллманн. Россия и ее империя 1450–1801. Санкт-Петербург: Библиороссика, 2023. 783 с. Предметно-именной указатель. ISBN: 978-5-907532-45-8.* Англоязычный оригинал рецензируемой книги Нэнси Коллманн был опубликован еще в 2017 г., а сейчас русский перевод делает книгу более доступной для отечественного читателя. В одной из ранних рецензий на нее французская исследовательница Мари-Карин Шауб обратила внимание на желание автора отойти от взгляда на российскую историю через европейское зеркало, изображавшее страну в категориях архаизма и отсталости, и вписать ее в глобальную историю империй. Тем самым подчеркиваются черты, общие для евразийских и восточных империй, но также проясняется и их специфика.1 Этот тезис представляется нам оправданным: Коллманн открыто отрицает цивилизационные стереотипы и предлагает рассматривать "Россию" раннего Нового времени в духе концепции "империи различий". Лейтмотивом исследования служит идея вариативности политических практик, применявшихся монархами московского и российского государств с целью обеспечения их относительной стабильности. Центральная роль разнообразия переносится автором и на другие сферы жизни [End Page 193] общества, демонстрировавшего неоднородность сущностных характеристик на всех этапах своей истории. Таким образом, "империя различий" проявляет себя сразу на нескольких уровнях: многообразия политических стратегий, применяемых верховной властью в отношении полиэтничного и поликонфессионального населения страны; вариативности организации жизни внутри разных групп населения и сословий; тактического плюрализма административных реформ. Различия предстают фундаментальной категорией, объясняющей особенности политики и повседневной жизни, а также формирующей стратегию власти в не меньшей степени, чем воля законного монарха. Коллманн реконструирует панорамную и динамическую картину постоянной трансформации российской политии и сферы имперского воображения на протяжении нескольких веков. Начало повествования о "России" и ее "империи" с середины XV в. вызывает закономерный вопрос об обоснованности выбора этой точки отсчета. М. М. Кром отметил в своей рецензии, что в книге этот выбор не объясняется напрямую, оставаясь фигурой умол чания.2 Вероятно, следуя провозглашенной концепции "империи различий", Коллманн полагает, что к 1450-м гг. масштаб и многогранность разнообразия в формирующемся Московском государстве достигли некой критической величины, позволяя говорить о новом его качестве – "империи де-факто" (Глава 2). Претендуя на статус региональной державы после упадка Великой Орды, Москва имела поликультурных подданных – славян, финно-угров и тюрок. Территориальная экспансия начала обосновываться миссией "собирания русских земель" домонгольского периода несмотря на то, что "элиты, княжеские династии, религия, культура и основы национальной мифологии, появившиеся в Киевской Руси, были унаслед
{"title":"Россия и ее империя 1450–1801 by Нэнси Коллманн (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/imp.2023.a906845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a906845","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Россия и ее империя 1450–1801 by Нэнси Коллманн Алина Мезенова (bio) and Александр Белоусов (bio) Нэнси Коллманн. Россия и ее империя 1450–1801. Санкт-Петербург: Библиороссика, 2023. 783 с. Предметно-именной указатель. ISBN: 978-5-907532-45-8.* Англоязычный оригинал рецензируемой книги Нэнси Коллманн был опубликован еще в 2017 г., а сейчас русский перевод делает книгу более доступной для отечественного читателя. В одной из ранних рецензий на нее французская исследовательница Мари-Карин Шауб обратила внимание на желание автора отойти от взгляда на российскую историю через европейское зеркало, изображавшее страну в категориях архаизма и отсталости, и вписать ее в глобальную историю империй. Тем самым подчеркиваются черты, общие для евразийских и восточных империй, но также проясняется и их специфика.1 Этот тезис представляется нам оправданным: Коллманн открыто отрицает цивилизационные стереотипы и предлагает рассматривать \"Россию\" раннего Нового времени в духе концепции \"империи различий\". Лейтмотивом исследования служит идея вариативности политических практик, применявшихся монархами московского и российского государств с целью обеспечения их относительной стабильности. Центральная роль разнообразия переносится автором и на другие сферы жизни [End Page 193] общества, демонстрировавшего неоднородность сущностных характеристик на всех этапах своей истории. Таким образом, \"империя различий\" проявляет себя сразу на нескольких уровнях: многообразия политических стратегий, применяемых верховной властью в отношении полиэтничного и поликонфессионального населения страны; вариативности организации жизни внутри разных групп населения и сословий; тактического плюрализма административных реформ. Различия предстают фундаментальной категорией, объясняющей особенности политики и повседневной жизни, а также формирующей стратегию власти в не меньшей степени, чем воля законного монарха. Коллманн реконструирует панорамную и динамическую картину постоянной трансформации российской политии и сферы имперского воображения на протяжении нескольких веков. Начало повествования о \"России\" и ее \"империи\" с середины XV в. вызывает закономерный вопрос об обоснованности выбора этой точки отсчета. М. М. Кром отметил в своей рецензии, что в книге этот выбор не объясняется напрямую, оставаясь фигурой умол чания.2 Вероятно, следуя провозглашенной концепции \"империи различий\", Коллманн полагает, что к 1450-м гг. масштаб и многогранность разнообразия в формирующемся Московском государстве достигли некой критической величины, позволяя говорить о новом его качестве – \"империи де-факто\" (Глава 2). Претендуя на статус региональной державы после упадка Великой Орды, Москва имела поликультурных подданных – славян, финно-угров и тюрок. Территориальная экспансия начала обосновываться миссией \"собирания русских земель\" домонгольского периода несмотря на то, что \"элиты, княжеские династии, религия, культура и основы национальной мифологии, появившиеся в Киевской Руси, были унаслед","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135445121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906844
SUMMARY: This is the publication of archival documents pertaining to the history of the Russian Art Exhibition of 1924–1926 in the United States as an element of early Soviet cultural diplomacy. The documents discuss the role in the exhibition of figures like Igor Grabar, Olga Kameneva, Ivan Sytin, Charles Crane, and Christian Brinton and the conflicts among different groups of the organizers. The publication also explicates the conflict between the organizers' commercial and political priorities. Резюме: Это публикация архивных документов, проливающих свет на историю Выставки русского искусства 1924–1926 годов в США как эпизода истории советской культурной дипломатии в ранний период ее существования. В документах обсуждается роль в выставке таких фигур как Игорь Грабарь, Ольга Каменева, Иван Сытин, Чарльз Крейн и Кристиан Бринтон. Кроме того, публикация освещает конфликт между политическими и коммерческими интересами организаторов выставки.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906846
Reviewed by: The Bentham Brothers and Russia: The Imperial Russian Constitution and the St. Petersburg Panopticon by Roger Bartlett N. N. Roger Bartlett, The Bentham Brothers and Russia: The Imperial Russian Constitution and the St. Petersburg Panopticon (London: UCL Press, 2022). 302 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-238-0. The intricate connections of the brothers Jeremy and Samuel Bentham with Alexander I's Russia are addressed in this book by Roger Bartlett, an emeritus professor at University College London. Consisting of four chapters that are highly disproportionate in length, an introduction, and an epilogue, the study lacks both a clear thesis and a unified narrative, such that the introduction and chapters could each serve as stand-alone articles. Bartlett does, however, present a unifying theme early in the book, which he emphasizes throughout – the pivotal role played by patronage for such ambitious careerists as the Benthams. Whereas Samuel managed to secure the patronage of Potemkin and the Vorontsovs early on, and later gained other supporters, Jeremy won moral encouragement and personal representation that nevertheless did not lead to financial benefits. The brothers shared a role, though, that Bartlett defines as a "projector": "'Projectors' might nowadays be called entrepreneurs or inventors," he writes, "and their 'project' probably a start-up enterprise" (P. 5). Despite Russia being influenced primarily by French culture during this period, Great Britain also exerted an influence, with St. Petersburg hosting British expatriates from its very beginnings and Anglophilia being in vogue since the late eighteenth century. The Benthams were therefore not unique in seeking careers and promoting projects in Russia. But their timing was fraught, as the Napoleonic era's shifting alliances and Alexander I's indecisiveness would subject their career pursuits to false leads, interruptions, and outright reversals. In his introduction, Bartlett limns well the international scene that the Benthams hoped to star in; but one curiosity of the book is that it shows they ended up playing only minor walk-on roles. Failure, not success, characterized the Benthams' activities vis-à-vis Alexandrine Russia, so this book is largely about missed cues, bungled opportunities, and disappointing outcomes. All the book's sections are numbered consecutively starting with the introduction, so the opening chapter is numbered "2." It spans almost a hundred pages and includes numerous digressions. Its main protagonist is Jeremy – a child prodigy, jurist by training and craft, and fountainhead of the philosophy of utilitarianism, [End Page 199] who tried to secure an authorial role in Alexander I's inchoate project to codify Russia's laws. To represent him, he relied on the Frenchman Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, his collaborator, popularizer, and editor, as well as a habitué of Russian aristocratic society. Dumont dutifully sang Jeremy's praises to N
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906855
Reviewed by: Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture by Molly Thomasy Blasing Yelena Severina (bio) Molly Thomasy Blasing, Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). 221 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5370-1. This book introduces the concept of "photo-poetics," defined by the author as "those elements of photographic processes and modes of photographic representation that give rise to new forms of lyric expression" (P. 5). Using this concept, Blasing examines the works of four prominent Russian poets: Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky, and Bella Akhmadulina. The book consists of an introduction, five chapters, and a coda. Each chapter analyzes the relationship of one of these poets with photography, while the fifth chapter explores the role of photography in the works of late Soviet and post-Soviet poets, thus demonstrating the influence that these four well-known figures had on younger generations. The author studies photographic motifs, themes, and allusions in the poetry and prose of the four protagonists, drawing on a wide range of additional sources: their personal correspondence, essays, interviews, recollections of their descendants, and black-and-white photographs. Each new chapter effectively builds on the findings of the previous one, thereby creating a sense of continuity and a cohesive reading experience that makes the book feel like a unified whole rather than a collection of disparate parts. By using this approach, Blasing masterfully shows how the adoption of "photo-poetic thinking" played a pivotal role in shaping the distinctive artistic styles of these poets. Chapter 1 analyzes the photo-poetic motifs in Boris Pasternak's oeuvre as Blasing sets out to prove her claim that some of his poetry could not have been written before the invention of photography. She skillfully weaves together biographical facts from Pasternak's childhood, which was marked by interest in visual culture such as magic lanterns, photographic flip-books, and cinema, with examples that reveal how he utilized the aesthetic and technological aspects of the photographic process. Through close readings of Pasternak's poems, excerpts from his novels in prose and in verse, philosophical writings, and letters, a vivid portrait of the famous poet emerges. It reveals someone who had a fascination with photography, which is perhaps best exemplified in My Sister Life: "In conveying visual experience and the interplay of consciousness and perception in his poetry, Pasternak uses photographic tropes as a way of isolating the experience of perceiving, [End Page 245] capturing, and processing moments in time" (P. 55). While using photo-poetics to explore the conflict between motion and stasis as well as to communicate a variety of the poet's concerns, this chapter emphasizes the significant impact that photography had on Past
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906843
Pavel Golubev
SUMMARY: Anticipating the publication of archival documents, the article reconstructs the history of the Russian Art Exhibition of 1924–1926 in the United States, presenting it as an element of early Soviet cultural diplomacy. The author emphasizes the instrumental roles of organizers like Igor Grabar, Olga Kameneva, Ivan Sytin, Charles Crane, and Christian Brinton. The study discusses various strategies to present Russian and early Soviet art to the American audience. Central to the narration are the dynamic, often conflicting interactions among the key protagonists of this story and the challenges of representing Soviet Russia on the global stage. Резюме: Предваряя публикацию архивных документов, статья реконструирует историю Выставки русского искусства 1924–1926 годов в США. Выставка в ней представлена как эпизод истории советской культурной дипломатии в ранний период ее существования. Автор акцентирует внимание на ключевой роли организаторов выставки, таких как Игорь Грабарь, Ольга Каменева, Иван Сытин, Чарльз Крейн и Кристиан Бринтон. Кроме того, в статье получают освещение различные подходы к демонстрации российского и раннего советского искусства американской публике. Основное внимание сосредоточено на динамичных, порой противоречивых и конфликтных отношениях между организаторами, а также на анализе разного рода проблем и обстоятельств, связанных с репрезентацией советской России на международной арене.
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