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Georgii Fedotov’s Saints of Ancient Russia, Georgii Florovskii’s The Ways of Russian Theology, Nikolai Berdiaev’s The Russian Idea and Vasilii Zenkovskii’s History of Russian Philosophy—these are among the most well-known and widely-read historical studies of Russian thought and culture. Having left their homeland after the Bolshevik Revolution, these four authors aimed to present their readers with a common past and thus with a common identity, and their historical works emerged out of the need for reorientation in a post-revolutionary, émigré situation. At the same time, they were to elaborate highly contrasting versions of the Russian past. By means of in-depth narrative and contextual analyses, Reformulating Russia provides a detailed examination of the visions of Russia contained in these four works.
Price: $217.00
Pages: 328
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Russian History and Culture
Publication Date:
06 May 2011
ISBN: 9789004192867
Format: Hardcover
"Reformulating Russia is designed for specialists in Russian intellectual history. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of religious studies. A well-conceived and well-researched volume."
Paul Valliere, Butler University Indianapolis, in Slavic Review 72.1, pp. 181-182
"An original feature of Mjør's work is the emphasis he places on narrative as a cognitive tool for constructing a meaningful and coherent past. Mjør contends that in order to explore how histroy is conceived, it is as important to study the narrative, the rhetoric and form, as it is to analyze teh content."
Frances Nethercott, St Andrews, in Kritika 15.2, pp 421-439
"Mjør's Reformulating Russia is a provocative, unique effort to place four unconventional voices into first-wave Russian émigré historiography. The book is a welcome invitation to reconsider whose analyses defined history in Russia Abroad and how these analyses shifted after decades of Soviet power."
Krista Sigler, Cincinnati, in East Central Europe 41.1, pp 123-126
Paul Valliere, Butler University Indianapolis, in Slavic Review 72.1, pp. 181-182
"An original feature of Mjør's work is the emphasis he places on narrative as a cognitive tool for constructing a meaningful and coherent past. Mjør contends that in order to explore how histroy is conceived, it is as important to study the narrative, the rhetoric and form, as it is to analyze teh content."
Frances Nethercott, St Andrews, in Kritika 15.2, pp 421-439
"Mjør's Reformulating Russia is a provocative, unique effort to place four unconventional voices into first-wave Russian émigré historiography. The book is a welcome invitation to reconsider whose analyses defined history in Russia Abroad and how these analyses shifted after decades of Soviet power."
Krista Sigler, Cincinnati, in East Central Europe 41.1, pp 123-126
Kåre Johan Mjør (b. 1973) holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway. The author of Desire, Death, and Imitation: Narrative Patterns in the Late Tolstoy (Slavica Bergensia 4), he has also published articles on Russian imperial historiography and Russian post-Soviet intellectual culture.