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The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering

The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering

Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesMental HealthRussian History

ISBN10: 081477458X
ISBN13: 9780814774588
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Mar 1 1995
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.36
Language: English

Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing humility as the mother of virtues, the trauma of the Bolshevik revolution, the current economic upheavals wracking the country-- these are only a few of the symptoms of what The Slave Soul of Russia identifies as a veritable cult of suffering that has been centuries in the making.

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