Russian Émigrés in the Intellectual and Literary Life of Interwar France
A Bibliographical Essay
Format:Hardback
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Published:1st Jul '10
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An encyclopedic bibliography of material published in the cultural exchange between French intellectuals and Russian exiles who fled the Soviet Union.
In a pioneering exploration of the intellectual and literary exchange between Russian emigres and French intelligentsia in the 1920s and 1930s, Leonid Livak provides an impressively comprehensive bibliographic overview of a veritable "who's who" of Russian intellectuals and literati, listing all the material published by Russian emigres or on topics pertaining to them during the period under study. Focusing attention on a largely ignored chapter of European cultural history, this volume challenges historical assumptions by demonstrating processes of cultural cross-fertilization and illuminates the precedents Russians set for political exiles in the twentieth century. A remarkable achievement in scholarship, Russian Emigres in the Intellectual and Literary Life of Inter-War France is a valuable resource for admirers and researchers of French and Russian culture and European intellectual history.
"Russian E migrE s is an invaluable resource. The book achieves precisely what it sets out to do ... . The bibliography is admirably comprehensive, providing a thorough list of varying resources (articles, books, dissertations, letters, newspaper, etc.) available in a large array of collections worldwide. It suggests, furthermore, exciting avenues of future research not just in the history of French-Russian/Soviet relations, but also in comparative approaches to literary and cultural history." N. Christine Brookes, Central Michigan University "Leonid Livak has done a great service to the study of the Russian emigration with the publication of this volume. It is bound to be of considerable value to students of both Russian and French intellectual and political history, and will certainly lead to new perspectives on intellectual cross-fertilization in twentieth-century Europe." Russian Review "[Russian E migrE s]contributes to and illuminates often ignored, yet imminently valuable perspectives to current notions of borders, exile, the nation, and the transnational within European literary and cultural history. An invaluable resource." H-France
ISBN: 9780773537231
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm
Weight: unknown
584 pages