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The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore

The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore

Perrie, Maureen
Burke, Peter
Maureen, Perrie

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, Book 16

Mythology & FolkloreGeneral European HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 0521891000
ISBN13: 9780521891004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 11 2002
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
Ivan the Terrible has long been a controversial figure. Some historians regard him as a crazed and evil tyrant; while others (especially Soviet scholars of the Stalin period) have viewed him as a progressive and far-sighted statesman. The folklore about Ivan has played an important part in these debates. Was Ivan's depiction in folklore favourable or hostile? And how far can it be regarded as evidence of contemporary popular attitudes towards the tsar? In this unusual and far-ranging study, Maureen Perrie discusses the nature of Ivan's image in Russian folklore; its historical basis; its development; and the controversies which have surrounded it in pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russian scholarship. She argues that Ivan was in general portrayed in folklore in a positive light, but that this image does not necessarily reflect sixteenth-century views.

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