Polish Encounters, Russian Identity (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)

At a time when Poland is emphasizing its distance from Russia, Polish Encounters, Russian Identity points to the historical ties and mutual influences of these two great Slavic peoples. Whether Poland adopted a hostile or a friendly stance toward Russia, the intense responses of Russian thinkers, writers, and political leaders to Poland and to Polish culture shaped Russians' idea of themselves and their place in the world. Countering the recent trend to deny the rich interactions between Russia and Poland, this collection reminds readers that these longstanding, if often difficult, contacts constitute an important and enduring element in the consciousness of the peoples of both countries.The contributors are Manon de Courten, Megan Dixon, Halina Goldberg, Leonid Efremovich Gorizontov, Irina Grudzinska, Beth Holmgren, Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Matthew Pauly, Nina Perlina, Robert Przygrodski, David L. Ransel, Bozena Shallcross, Barbara Skinner, and Andrzej Walicki. The irreparable church schism : Russian Orthodox identity and its historical encounter with Catholicism / Barbara Skinner Imitation of life : a Russian guest in the Polish regimental family / Beth Holmgren Repositioning Pushkin and the poems of the Polish uprising / Megan Dixon Appropriating Poland : Glinka, Polish dance, and Russian national identity / Halina Goldberg The Slavophile thinkers and the Polish question in 1863 / Andrzej Walicki Dostoevsky and his Polish fellow prisoners from the house of the dead / Nina Perlina Vladimir Solov'ëv's views on the Polish question : Poland and reunion of the Eastern and Western churches / Manon de Courten The geopolitical dimension of Russian-Polish confrontation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Leonid Gorizontov Tsar Vasilii Shuiskii, the Staszic Palace, and nineteenth-century Russian politics in Warsaw / Robert L. Przygrodzki At home with Pani Eliza : Isaac Babel and his Polish encounters / Judith Deutsch Kornblatt Soviet polonophobia and the formulation of nationalities policy in the Ukrainian SSR 1927-1934 / Matthew D. Pauly Under the influence? Joseph Brodsky and Poland / Irena Grudzińska Gross.

At a time when Poland is emphasizing its distance from Russia, Polish
Encounters, Russian Identity points to the historical ties and mutual influences of
these two great Slavic peoples. Whether Poland adopted a hostile or a friendly
stance toward Russia, the intense responses of Russian thinkers, writers, and
political leaders to Poland and to Polish culture shaped Russians' idea of
themselves and their place in the world. Countering the recent trend to deny the
rich interactions between Russia and Poland, this collection reminds readers that
these longstanding, if often difficult, contacts constitute an important and
enduring element in the consciousness of the peoples of both
countries.

The contributors are Manon de Courten, Megan Dixon,
Halina Goldberg, Leonid Efremovich Gorizontov, Irina Grudzinska, Beth Holmgren,
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Matthew Pauly, Nina Perlina, Robert Przygrodski, David L.
Ransel, Bozena Shallcross, Barbara Skinner, and Andrzej Walicki.

Highlights Poland's central role in the formation of a modern Russian identity.