Myth and Remembrance
Russia and the Year 1812

Osteuropa 1/2013
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel, Anna Ananieva, Klaus Gestwa (Ed.)
Berlin (BWV) 2013 [= Osteuropa 1/2013]
176 pages, 43 figures
Price: 15,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-3112-8

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Anna Ananieva, Klaus Gestwa
  1812 in Russia and Europe
  Media Presentation, Myths, and Historical Analysis
• Vadim Parsamov
  Myth and Ideology
  1812 and the Idea of a “People’s War”
• Elisabeth Cheauré
  “Eagles in Their Heads, Snakes in Their Hearts…"
  Napoleon, Borodino, and National Identity in Russia
• Elena Višlenkova
  The Anti-Napoleon Caricature
  Peculiarities of Russian Humour
• Regine Nohejl
  “Glory to You Forever, Borodino!”
  The Patriotic War in Present-Day Russia
• Denis A. Sdvižkov
  Uncomfortable Memory
  Borodino and Leipzig
• Boris Belge
  The Roar of Cannon and the Ringing of Bells
  Peter Tchaikovsky’s Festival Overture 1812
• Christine Engel
  War and Peace
  1812 in Tolstoy and Dornhelm
• Konstantin Rapp
  The Patriotic War
  The centenary celebrations in 1912
• Igor’ Ermačenko
  In 1812 Everything Was Better
  Using Memory to Displace Crisis in the Late Tsarist Empire
• Hans Hecker
  1812 – Napoleon in Russia
  A Review of Literature
• Karlheinz Kasper
  Manuscripts Don’t Burn
  First and New Translations of Russian Literature in 2012
• Klaus Segbers
  A Misinterpreted List of Defects
  On the Alleged Crisis of Expertise concerning Russia