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Between Heaven and Hell

The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture

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  • © 1993

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  1. Galya Diment

    1. University of Washington, USA

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  2. Yuri Slezkine

    1. University of California, Berkeley, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Galya Diment, Yuri Slezkine
    Pages 1-14

  3. Savage Christians or Unorthodox Russians? The Missionary Dilemma in Siberia

    • Yuri Slezkine
    Pages 15-31

  4. Avvakum and the Genesis of Siberian Literature

    • Bruce T. Holl
    Pages 33-45

  5. Exiled from Siberia: The Construction of Siberian Experience by Early-Nineteenth-Century Irkutsk Writers

    • Galya Diment
    Pages 47-65

  6. Paradoxical Perceptions of Siberia: Patrician and Plebeian Images up to the Mid-1800s

    • James R. Gibson
    Pages 67-93

  7. “Vo Glubine Sibirskikh Rud”: Siberia and the Myth of Exile

    • Harriet Murav
    Pages 95-111

  8. The Regionalist Conception of Siberia, 1860 to 1920

    • Stephen Watrous
    Pages 113-132

  9. Lenin and the Siberian Peasant Insurrections

    • N. G. O. Pereira
    Pages 133-150

  10. Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma

    • Leona Toker
    Pages 151-169

  11. Siberia as Volia: Vasilii Shukshin’s Search for Freedom

    • John Givens
    Pages 171-184

  12. Stereotyping Interethnic Communication: The Siberian Native in Soviet Literature

    • Johanna Nichols
    Pages 185-214

  13. The Divided Self: Yuri Rytkheu and Contemporary Chukchi Literature

    • Adele Barker
    Pages 215-226

  14. Siberia Hot and Cold: Reconstructing the Image of Siberian Indigenous Peoples

    • Bruce Grant
    Pages 227-253

  15. A Paradise Lost? Siberia and Its Writers, 1960 to 1990

    • David Gillespie
    Pages 255-273

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 274-278
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Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders. Yet, it could be said that the elusive country 'behind the Urals' is the most real and the most durable part of the Russian landscape. For centuries, Siberia has been represented as Russia's alter ego,as the heavenly or infernal antithesis to the perceived complexity or shallowness of Russian life. It has been both the frightening heart of darkness and a fabulous land of plenty; the 'House of the Dead' and the realm of utter freedom; a frozen wasteland and a colourful frontier; a dumping ground for Russia's rejects and the last refuge of its lost innocence. The contributors to Between Heaven and Hell examine the origin, nature, and implications of these images from historical, literary, geographical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives. They create a striking, fascinating picture of this enormous and mysterious land.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Washington, USA

    Galya Diment

  • University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Yuri Slezkine

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