Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5981139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Baruch Wachtel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew Baruch |
| FAMILY NAME | Wachtel |
| SIGNATURE | WACHTEL A B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kyrgyzstan between democratization and ethnic intolerance
The international community has expressed great concern about the treatment of the Uzbek minority in the south of Kyrgyzstan and has called on the majority community to make major efforts to improve the situation. The article compares the treatment of minorities in Kyrgyzstan with analogous situations in the Balkans and contends that, given the European-style ethnonational state model and democratic political system that have been adopted by inde…
The Balkans in World History
In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening but ill-defined space. Most attempts at definition focus on geography (the actual mountain range that gives the area its name and the lands surrounding it) or, more recently, on the set of prejudices attached to the term by local and outside observers. There has been far less concern with attempting to define this space in positive terms, taking as a star…
Plays of Expectations
Revisiting Ruritania and Vulgaria
Intersections and Transpositions
This collection serves as an introduction to the great variety of approaches being used by Slavicists and historians to situate music and literature in the Russian cultural imagination. The first part focuses on music in art; part two centres on music in life
The Life of Arseniev
An Obsession with History
The author traces the role of Russian literature over two hundred years in creating and sustaining the notion of the singularity of their own history and of its relationship to the history of the outside world.The author describes the development of this tradition through an analysis of major works including Karamzin's History of the Russian State, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. His analysis of this tradition ha…
The Battle for Childhood. Creation of a Russian Myth
The Battle for Childhood
Introduction 1. L. N. Tolstoy and his Childhood 2. S. T. Aksakov: a broader vision 3. Canonizing the myths of Russian gentry childhood 4. M. Gorky: Anti-Childhood 5. The modernist childhood of A. Belyi 6. I. A. Bunin: preserving the tradition in exile Conclusion Notes Bibliography
Kyrgyzstan between democratization and ethnic intolerance
The international community has expressed great concern about the treatment of the Uzbek minority in the south of Kyrgyzstan and has called on the majority community to make major efforts to improve the situation. The article compares the treatment of minorities in Kyrgyzstan with analogous situations in the Balkans and contends that, given the European-style ethnonational state model and democratic political system that have been adopted by inde…
An Obsession with History
The author traces the role of Russian literature over two hundred years in creating and sustaining the notion of the singularity of their own history and of its relationship to the history of the outside world.The author describes the development of this tradition through an analysis of major works including Karamzin's History of the Russian State, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. His analysis of this tradition ha…
The Battle for Childhood
Introduction 1. L. N. Tolstoy and his Childhood 2. S. T. Aksakov: a broader vision 3. Canonizing the myths of Russian gentry childhood 4. M. Gorky: Anti-Childhood 5. The modernist childhood of A. Belyi 6. I. A. Bunin: preserving the tradition in exile Conclusion Notes Bibliography
The Battle for Childhood. Creation of a Russian Myth
The Battle for Childhood
Introduction 1. L. N. Tolstoy and his Childhood 2. S. T. Aksakov: a broader vision 3. Canonizing the myths of Russian gentry childhood 4. M. Gorky: Anti-Childhood 5. The modernist childhood of A. Belyi 6. I. A. Bunin: preserving the tradition in exile Conclusion Notes Bibliography
An Obsession with History
The author traces the role of Russian literature over two hundred years in creating and sustaining the notion of the singularity of their own history and of its relationship to the history of the outside world.The author describes the development of this tradition through an analysis of major works including Karamzin's History of the Russian State, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. His analysis of this tradition ha…
The Life of Arseniev
Intersections and Transpositions
This collection serves as an introduction to the great variety of approaches being used by Slavicists and historians to situate music and literature in the Russian cultural imagination. The first part focuses on music in art; part two centres on music in life
Revisiting Ruritania and Vulgaria
Plays of Expectations
The Balkans in World History
In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening but ill-defined space. Most attempts at definition focus on geography (the actual mountain range that gives the area its name and the lands surrounding it) or, more recently, on the set of prejudices attached to the term by local and outside observers. There has been far less concern with attempting to define this space in positive terms, taking as a star…
Kyrgyzstan between democratization and ethnic intolerance
The international community has expressed great concern about the treatment of the Uzbek minority in the south of Kyrgyzstan and has called on the majority community to make major efforts to improve the situation. The article compares the treatment of minorities in Kyrgyzstan with analogous situations in the Balkans and contends that, given the European-style ethnonational state model and democratic political system that have been adopted by inde…
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