Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
The Nineteenth Century | |
Introduction: From History to Myth | p. 3 |
Folk Poetry, Pushkin, and the Romantic Cossack Hero | p. 21 |
Gogol's Cossacks and the "Russian Soul" | p. 39 |
Death Transcended and the Female Threat | p. 61 |
Space and Time Unbounded | p. 71 |
Conclusion: The Ambivalent Tolstoi | p. 91 |
The Twentieth Century | |
Introduction: From Myth to History | p. 99 |
Isaak Babel and His Red Cavalry Cossacks | p. 107 |
Modern Poets and Their Cossack Rebels | p. 126 |
Mikhail Sholokhov and Transfer of the Staff of Power | p. 149 |
Socialist Realism and Death to the Cossack Myth | p. 164 |
Conclusion: Nabokov's Postmortem | p. 174 |
Notes | p. 179 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 211 |
Index | p. 223 |
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