Russian literature and empire : conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy /

This is the first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. From Pushkin's ambivalent portrayal of an alpine Circassia to Tolstoy's condemnation of tsarist aggression against Muslim tribes in Hadji Murat...

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Main Author: Layton, Susan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Series:Cambridge studies in Russian literature.
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