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The Mongol Conquests in the Novels of Vasily Yan : an Intellectual Biography.

Vasily Yan (Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky, 1874'1954) was a writer of historical novels whose popularity survives the test of time. He was widely read throughout the Soviet era and continues to be popular in the post-Soviet era. This book is not just a biographical sketch of an important Ru...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shlapentokh, Dmitry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: La Vergne : Ibidem Press, 2017.
Colección:Literatur und Kultur im mittleren und östlichen Europa.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Vasily Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Biography; The Formative Years; The Rise of Japan, the Russoâ#x80;#x90;Japanese War, and Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Continuous Intellectual Journey; Yan During the Time of World War I, the Russian Revolutions, and Civil War; The Ideological Setting of Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Novels: From Asianism to Russian Nationalism; The Rise of Russian Nationalism and Its Implications for Writing Historical Novels; Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Work in the Early 1930s; Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Book on the Creation of the Mongol Empire and Stalinist Censorship; The Attempt to Publish the Works on Mongols.
  • Response to Yan Novels Before the Great Patriotic (Sovietâ#x80;#x90;German) War, 1941â#x80;#x93;1945The War Years; Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Life During the War; Part 2: Vasily Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Works; Ideological Framework of Yanâ#x80;#x99;s Novels on the Mongols; Mongols as a â#x80;#x9C;Collective Pilateâ#x80;#x9D;: Genghis Khan and the Birth of Evil; The Great Khan and the Fedorovian Dream; Batu and the Mongol Invasion of Russia; Russians as the Enemy of Mongols: Russians as â#x80;#x9C;Collective Christâ#x80;#x9D; Unified Around the Leader; The Monolithic Unity of the Leaders and the Masses; Russians as â#x80;#x9C;Collective Christâ#x80;#x9D;; Russia as Christ and Defender of Europe.
  • The Change of the Image of the Mongols: Batu as Tough But Wise StalinConclusion; Bibliography.