Fathers and Sons: Turgenev's Theme in Russian Literary and Political Culture - Hardcover

by Vladimir Golstein (Author)

This book traces an explosive and dynamic pattern-generational interaction and conflict--in the last two centuries of Russian history. Reform, revolutions, terrorism and dictatorship, and their cultural artifacts they produced (E.g. Pushkin's poems, Dostoevsky's novels, and Eisenstein's films) are explored through this timeless prism.

Author Biography

Vladimir Golstein is an Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Lermontov's Narratives of Heroism, Svetlana Aleksievich--the Voice of Soviet Intelligentsia, and numerous essays on major Russian artists ranging from Pushkin to Tolstoy, and from Tsvetaeva to Tarkovsky. In 2016, he co-edited with Svetlana Evdokimova, Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Religion, Philosophy (Academic Studies Press).