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The invention of Mikhail Lomonosov : a Russian national myth / Steven A. Usitalo
(Imperial encounters in Russian history)
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Brighton, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press |
| Year | 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations |
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| Contents | Introduction 1. Honor and status in Lemonosov's 'autobiography' 2. Russia's 'own Platos and quick-witted Newtons' : inventing the scientist 3. Lomonosov in the age of Pushkin 4. Commemorating Russia's 'first scientist' 5. Boris Menshutkin and the 'rediscovery' of Lomonosov Epilogue : afterlife of the myth |
| Notes | This study explores the evolution of Lomonosov's imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years of the Soviet period. It reveals much about the intersection in Russian culture of attitudes towards the meaning and significance of science, as well as about the rise of a Russian national identity, of which Lomonosov became an outstanding symbol. Idealized depictions of Lomonosov were employed by Russian scientists, historians, and poets, among others, in efforts to affirm to their countrymen and to the state the pragmatic advantages of science to a modernizing nation. In setting forth this assumption, Usitalo notes that no sharply drawn division can be upheld between the utilization of the myth of Lomonosov during the Soviet period of Russian history and that which characterized earlier views. The main elements that formed the mythology were laid down in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Soviet scholars simply added more exaggerated layers to existing representations -- Provided by Publisher Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-289) and index Print version record |
| Authors | *Usitalo, Steven A. Marker, Gary, 1948- |
| Subjects | LCSH:Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilʹevich, 1711-1765 FREE:Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilʹevich, 1711-1765 FREE:Lomonosov, Michail Vasilʹevič 1711-1765 BSH:Electronic books FREE:Biography LCSH:Authors, Russian -- 18th century -- Biography All Subject Search LCSH:Enlightenment -- Russia All Subject Search LCSH:Russian literature -- 18th century All Subject Search LCSH:Science -- 18th century. -- Russia All Subject Search BISACSH:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology All Subject Search BISACSH:SCIENCE -- History All Subject Search BISACSH:HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union All Subject Search FREE:Authors, Russian FREE:Civilization FREE:Enlightenment FREE:Russian literature FREE:Science FREE:Rezeption FREE:Kulturhistoria FREE:Intellektuellt liv BISACSH:HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union BISACSH:HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union LCSH:Russia -- 18th century. -- Civilization All Subject Search FREE:Russia FREE:1700-1799 |
| Classification | DC23:509.2 |
| ID | ED00001282 |
| ISBN | 9781618111951 |