Author: Levitt, Marcus C.
Title: Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1989). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xi,233 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Pushkin Celebration of 1880 & the Crisis of Russian Culture; The Debate is Formulated: The Question of a Monument to Pushkin, 1837-1866; Those Who Kept the Light Burning: Working Toward a Monument, 1869-1880; The Celebration that Organized Itself; Turgenev's Last Stand; Dostoevsky "Hijacks" the Celebration; Conclusion: Aftermath and Legacy: Pushkin, 1880-1987.

Keywords: Russian Literature, Tsarist Russia, Literary Politics, Cultural History, Aleksandr Pushkin, Political, , ,