Dostoevsky and the Idea of Russianess: A New Perspective on Unity and Brotherhood

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Note on editions, transliteration and translation......Page 10
1. The Slavophile context......Page 12
2. Dostoevsky’s ideological position with regard to the Slavophile movement......Page 27
Early work......Page 28
Siberia......Page 34
Vremia, Epokha and pochvennichestvo......Page 49
Diary of a Writer and the Pushkin Speech......Page 75
3 The dramatization in Dostoevsky’s fiction of themes found in Slavophile thought......Page 99
The condition of rootiessness: the Kushite category......Page 101
Living in sobornost': the Iranian category......Page 139
4 The Iranian text: Slavophile principles applied to the practice of writing......Page 172
Dostoevsky and the Slavophile aesthetic......Page 173
Examples of Slavophile writing in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre......Page 187
5 Concluding remarks......Page 209
Glossary of Russian terms......Page 213
Notes
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Bibliography......Page 228
Index......Page 235