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Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia

Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia

Barabtarlo, Gennady

Hardcover

Series: Slavic Literature, Culture & Society, Book 5

Literary CriticismGerman HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 1571811885
ISBN13: 9781571811882
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: May 1 2000
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.75 Depth: 8.83
Language: English

While historical and political aspects of the Russo-German relationship over the past three to four centuries have received due attention from scholars, the range of the far more diverse, important, and peculiar cultural relations still awaits full assessment. This volume shows how enriching these cultural influences were for both countries, affecting many spheres of intellectual and daily life such as philosophy and religion, education and ideology, sciences and their application, arts and letters, custom and language. The German-Russian relationship has always been particularly intense. Oscillating as it has between infatuation and contempt, it has always been marked by a singular paradox: a German cultural presence in Russia resulting either in a more or less complete fusion, as in the case of Russifield German, or in a pronounced mutual repulsion, accompanied by the denigration of each other's culture as inferior. It is this curious paradox that determines the perspectives of the articles that were specially written for this volume, providing it with a unifying focus.

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