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Falling Brick Kills Local Man

Falling Brick Kills Local Man

Kraushaar, Mark
Levitt, Marcus

Paperback

Series: Wisconsin Poetry

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0299230848
ISBN13: 9780299230845
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Oct 26 2007
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

From the country that has added to our vocabulary such colorful terms as purges, pogroms, and gulag, this collection investigates the conspicuous marks of violence in Russian history and culture.
Russians and non-Russians alike have long debated the reasons for this endemic violence. Some have cited Russia's huge size, unforgiving climate, and exposed geographical position as formative in its national character, making invasion easy and order difficult. Others have fixed the blame on cultural and religious traditions that spurred internecine violence or on despotic rulers or unfortunate episodes in the nation's history, such as the Mongol invasion, the rule of Ivan the Terrible, or the Red Terror of the revolution. Even in contemporary Russia, the specter of violence continues, from widespread mistreatment of women to racial antagonism, the product of a frustrated nationalism that manifests itself in such phenomena as the wars in Chechnya.

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