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In Hunting Nature, Thomas P. Hodge explores Ivan Turgenev's relationship to nature through his conception, description, and practice of hunting-the most unquenchable passion of his life. Informed by an ecocritical perspective, Hodge takes an approach that is equal parts interpretive and documentarian, grounding his observations thoroughly in Russian cultural and linguistic context and a wide range of Turgenev's fiction, poetry, correspondence, and other writings. Included within the book are some of Turgenev's important writings on nature-never previously translated into English. Turgenev, who is traditionally identified as a chronicler of Russia's ideological struggles, is presented in Hunting Nature as an expert naturalist whose intimate knowledge of flora and fauna deeply informed his view of philosophy, politics, and the role of literature in society. Ultimately, Hodge argues that we stand to learn a great deal about Turgenev's thought and complex literary technique when we read him in both cultural and environmental contexts. Hodge details how Turgenev remains mindful of the way textual detail is wedded to the organic world-the priroda that he observed, and ached for, more keenly than perhaps any other Russian writer.

Comparative literature. --- Russian literature --- Russian culture --- fiction --- nature --- correspondence --- Turgenev --- poetry

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In einer vom Christentum geprägten Kultur geht es darum, die ihr zugrundeliegenden religiösen Figuren zu entschlüsseln. Dazu will die vorliegende Arbeit einen Beitrag leisten. Es geht darum, eine Figur zu untersuchen, die das "Funktionieren" der altrussischen Kultur begründete, und die gemeinhin "das neoplatonische Urbild-Abbild-Denken" genannt wird. Implizit wird hier davon ausgegangen, daß im 10. und 11. eine Beeinflussung der slavischen Kultur durch das byzantinische Christentum orthodoxer Prägung stattgefunden hat, deren genaue Art und Weise nicht eruiert werden soll. Der Untersuchung des Urbild-Abbild-Denkens in der byzantinischen Kultur und seiner Bindung an die Ikonenverehrung ist deshalb ein erster Teil dieser Arbeit gewidmet, der Untersuchung des altrussischen Urbild-Abbild-Denkens der nächste und größte Teil.

Social & cultural history --- Old Russian culture --- Byzantine culture --- Abbild --- Altrußland --- Das heilige Rußland --- der Ikonostas --- Die Dynastie Vladimir Svjatoslavičs --- Herrschaft --- Jahrhundert --- Johannes Damascenos --- Platon --- Soldat --- Untersuchungen --- Urbild --- Weltbild

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A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a "real man" is one who has served in the military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties to militarism. The link between men and the military, argues Maya Eichler, must be produced and reproduced in order to fill the ranks, engage in combat, and mobilize the population behind war. In the context of Russia's post-communist transition and the Chechen wars, men's militarization has been challenged and reinforced. Eichler uncovers the challenges by exploring widespread draft evasion and desertion, anti-draft and anti-war activism led by soldiers' mothers, and the general lack of popular support for the Chechen wars. However, the book also identifies channels through which militarized gender identities have been reproduced. Eichler's empirical and theoretical study of masculinities in international relations applies for the first time the concept of "militarized masculinity," developed by feminist IR scholars, to the case of Russia.

Militarism. --- Masculinity. --- anti-draft --- militarized masculinity --- post-communism --- desertion --- militarization --- Chechen wars --- masculinity --- activism --- international relations --- anti-war --- Russian culture --- men --- gender identities --- draft evasion

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Examines the ideology of sacrifice in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, analyzing a range of fictional and real-life figures who became part of a pantheon of heroes 'primarily because of their victimhood.'

Political culture --- Idealism --- Heroes --- Social aspects --- Mythology --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation) --- Intellectual life. --- Heroism --- Persons --- Antiheroes --- Apotheosis --- Courage --- Animism --- Monism --- Personalism --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Materialism --- Realism --- Transcendentalism --- Intellectual life --- Russian culture. --- Russian media. --- Soviet culture. --- Soviet ideology. --- contemporary culture. --- cultural analysis. --- cultural influence. --- cultural symbolism. --- cultural transformation. --- martyrdom. --- nationalist nostalgia. --- political discourse. --- post-Soviet culture. --- post-Soviet discourses. --- sacrifice ideology. --- sacrificial language. --- victimhood.

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Scholars of Russian culture have always paid close attention to texts and their authors, but they have often forgotten about the readers. These volumes illuminate encounters between the Russians and their favorite texts, a centuries-long and continent-spanning “love story” that shaped the way people think, feel, and communicate. The fruit of thirty-one specialists’ research, Reading Russia represents the first attempt to systematically depict the evolution of reading in Russia from the eighteenth century to the present day. The second volume of Reading Russia considers the evolution of reading during the long nineteenth century (1800-1917), particularly in relation to the emergence of new narrative and current affairs publications: novels, on the one hand, and daily newspapers, weekly magazines and thick journals, on the other. The volume examines how economic and social transformations, technological progress and the development of the publishing industry taking place in Russia gradually led to a significant expansion of the reading public. At the same time, in part due to the influence of new literature reading policies in schools, there was a greater cultural standardisation of Russian society, which was partially opposed by new forms of poetic reading.

History --- Literature Slavic --- Literature (General) --- Cultura russa --- i russi e i loro testi preferiti --- evoluzione della lettura in Russia --- 1800-1917 --- romanzi --- quotidiani --- settimanali --- standardizzazione culturale del russo --- nuove forme di lettura poetica --- Russian culture --- Russians and their favorite texts --- evolution of reading in Russia --- novels --- daily newspapers --- weekly magazines --- cultural standardisation of Russian --- new forms of poetic reading