ISSN: 2158-7051 ==================== INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RUSSIAN STUDIES ==================== ISSUE NO. 2 ( 2013/2 ) |
“TSAR AND GOD” AND OTHER ESSAYS IN RUSSIAN
CULTURAL SEMIOTICS,. By Ayse Dietrich*, Published by: Academic
Studies Press, Boston. Year of Publishing: 2012. Subject Area: History. Book
Type: Reference Book. Total Number of Pages: 272. ISBN: 978-1-936235-49-0
This book pertains to the fields of literary
studies, social history, cultural history and politics. The book is comprised of
a collection of essays by experts in the field, such as B.A. Uspenskij and V. M. Zhivov.
The
book was translated from Russian by Marcus C. Levitt, David Budgen
and Liv Bliss and edited by Marcus C. Levitt. It is
published by Academic Studies Press in 2012.
The book consists of six articles. The title
of the first article is “Tsar and God:
Semiotic Aspects of the Sacralization of the Monarch
in
The second article “Tsar and Pretender: Samozvanchestvo or
Royal Imposture in
The
third article “Enthronement in the Russian and Byzantine Traditions” is
also written by B.A. Uspenskij. This article is
concerned with the tradition of enthronement in
The
fourth article “Europe as Metaphor and Metonymy (in Relation to the History
of Russia)”, likewise by B.A. Uspenskij, deals with the question whether
The
fifth article “Cultural Reforms in Peter I’s System of Transformations”,
which is written by V.M. Zhivov, concerns the Petrine cultural innovations and obstacles that existed in
the framework of traditional culture.
The
last article, “The Myth of the State in the Age of Enlightenment and Its
Destruction in Late Eighteenth-Century Russia”
written by V.M. Zhivov, deals with the Age of
Enlightenment and its reflections in Russian traditional culture. The basic
elements of the new ideology of the state, the mythology of the state and the
development of the imperial cult are all discussed in the article.
For anyone concerned with or interested in the topic of cultural
development in
*Ayse Dietrich - Editor and the founder of the International Journal of Russian Studies e-mail: editor@ijors.net , dietrichayse@yahoo.com . Professor Ayse Dietrich currently teaches part-time in the Department of History, Middle East Technical University e-mail: dayse@metu.edu.tr
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