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Journal articles on the topic "Cossacks in literature"
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Yang, Sumei, and Nataliya V. Lukiyanchikova. "COSSACK LITERATURE AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON." World of Russian-speaking Countries 5, no. 3 (2020): 122–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2658-7866-2020-3-5-122-138.
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In the article, the authors attempt to characterize the specifics and follow the dynamics of literature devoted to the history and culture of the Russian Cossacks, to describe the stages of the development of Cossack literature as a special cultural phenomenon. The article considers in detail that the way of life, the nature of social organization, life and culture, the morals and folklore of Cossacks have always been specific and thereby were of special interest of scientists, in connection with which a large number of scientific studies appeared on various aspects of this phenomenon. Special attention in the proposed work is paid to the regional features of Cossack culture and the multifaceted, internally rich images of Cossacks created by Russian writers (both classics and authors of the XX-XXI centuries), the article explains how the regional component is presented in Cossack folklore and literature, analyzes works devoted to Cossacks as a special socio-ethnic phenomenon. Cossack literature is considered by the authors of literature in the context of three historical periods: Cossack literature of the Russian Empire (before the 1917 Revolution), Cossack literature related to the era of the Soviet state (1917–1991), the latest Cossack literature (from 1991 to the present), it is noted that each era imposes its own imprint on the problems and system of images of works: the heroization of the Cossacks, who fulfill the historical mission of protecting their native land and developing new spaces, in the literature of the pre-revolutionary period, the tragic concept of the Cossacks in the literature of the Soviet era and the image of the process of reviving the spirit of the Cossacks in modern literature.
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Yakovenko, Yanina. "THE IMAGE OF THE COSSACKS IN THE WORK OF FRANCISZEK RAWITA-GAWROŃSKI." Polish Studies of Kyiv, no. 36 (2020): 364–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/psk.2020.36.364-375.
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The article analyses the artistic and historical prose of nineteenth-century writer Franciszek Rawita-Gawroński. In particular, the issues of Cossacks and Cossacks in the author’s work are explored. We have drawn a parallel between the Ukrainian and Polish vision of the problem of Cossack interpretation in literature, and clarified the historical prerequisites of its occurrence on the example of his historical novels, in particular “Pan Hetman Mazepa” and “Na kresach”, as well as scientific and historical works on the Cossacks: “Kozaczyzna ukrainna w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej”, “Historia ruchów hajdamackich” etc. An amateur historian, a Polish Ukrainian is known, among other things, for creating a negative Cossack stereotype in Polish writing. In the Polish historical science of the XVI-XVIII centuries the historiographical image of the Ukrainian Cossacks begins to take shape. The ruins and Cossack wars of the late XVI-XVIII centuries inspired Polish chroniclers to create the stereotype of a Ukrainian barbarian, a cruel and immoral robber. The purpose of such actions was to justify the policy of the Commonwealth and the Polish nobility towards Ukrainians. One of the reasons was the current political situation, which deliberately distorted the Ukrainian-Polish past. At the same time, the influence of the Jagiellonian Idea, which consisted in the idealisation of the Union of Lublin in 1569, in particular in the voluntary unification of the Polish Kingdom, Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Ukraine, was significant. Ignoring the Cossacks as the third political people of the Commonwealth ended with bloody and devastating uprisings that weakened the Polish-Lithuanian state and the Cossacks themselves. The campaigns of the Cossacks on the land ruled by the Turkish Sultan, incited the Commonwealth to punitive attacks by the Tatars, and especially to the conflict with Turkey, which the state tried to avoid. Attempts to impose public control on them ended in riots. The situation was also aggravated by the attitude of the nobility, who, despite the merits of the Cossacks before the state, treated them as rebellious peasants. The blame for this should be placed on the elite of the Commonwealth, which failed to solve the problem, and whose actions against the Cossacks had the features of contingency and inconsistency. The problem was also the constant increase in their numbers, interference with the conflict between Orthodoxy and the Union of Brest.
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Dubovikov, Aleksandr Maratovich, and Larisa Yurievna Lepeshkina. "Spiritual and moral qualities of the Ural Cossacks in family and marriage relations (the 18th – early 20th centuries)." Человек и культура, no. 2 (February 2024): 160–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8744.2024.2.70152.
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The subject of the study is the spiritual and moral qualities of the Ural Cossacks, most clearly manifested in family and marriage relations. On the basis of the analysis of family and marriage traditions of the Ural Cossacks it is possible to construct an image of a Cossack warrior, ready to desperately defend his Homeland. The study of historical aspects of the development of folk traditions becomes especially relevant in the conditions of the modern worldview crisis. Archival materials and a variety of local history literature (works of I.I. Zheleznov, N.A. Borodin, V.N. Vitevsky, V.G. Korolenko, A.V. Gnedenko, etc.) were used for the preparation of the article. Methodologically, the article is based on the cultural approach, which allows us to understand the reasons for the stability of Cossack traditions throughout the centuries. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time the spiritual and moral qualities of the Ural Cossacks, manifested in the family and domestic sphere, are considered as an indicator of the Ural Cossacks' attitude to military service. In the everyday culture of the Ural Cossacks in the 18th – early 20th centuries, under the influence of historical factors, such human qualities as responsibility, respect for elders, freedom-loving, collectivism, domesticity and avoidance of honour-defying sexual contacts became valuable. The importance of these qualities has not been lost until now, which is confirmed by the Decrees of the President of the Russian Federation in 2021, 2022 and 2023. The need of society and the state for real heroes, as the Ural Cossacks were considered to be, becomes especially acute when national threats increase. The article concludes on the role of spiritual and moral qualities of the Ural Cossacks in preserving their unique culture.
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Pleshakov, Ivan, and Ekaterina Vasilieva. "The Cossacks in the Period of Colonization and Formation of the Saratov Volga Region Administrative Structure in the Late 17th – Early 18th Centuries." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, no. 4 (September 2019): 20–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2019.4.2.
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Introduction. The work investigated the Cossacks during the period of colonization and the formation of the Saratov Volga region administrative structure in the late 17th – early 18th c. The paper presents the analysis of the Cossacks and its influence on the military organization of life in the region during this period. The relevance of studying the processes of colonization in the Volga region in the late 17th – early 18th centuries is growing, since these issues are not fully analyzed in the scientific literature. Methods and materials. Methods: the principles of historicism and objectivity, analysis, synthesis, the historical-genetic method, the system approach. Materials: abstracts of I.A. Biryukov, S.B. Veselovskiy, A.A. Geraklitov, N.B. Golikova, A.L. Kleytman, E.N. Kusheva, S.A. Mezin, I.N. Pleshakov, I.O. Tyumentsev and others. Analysis. In this article, the authors qualify positive and negative factors that changed the place of the Cossacks in the process of colonization and forming the Saratov Volga region administrative structure (the lands that entered Saratov province in the late 18th century are understood). During this period, the oldest Cossack communities of Russia were formed: the Don, Yaitsky, Terek Hosts. The authors consider the reasons that became an obstacle for the Cossacks and did not allow creating the same community on the Volga. Results. This paper reviews the history of city Cossack teams in Saratov, Dmitrievsk, Tsaritsyn, Cherny Yar and other settlements. The authors note that when evaluating the practices of the interaction between the Cossacks and the administrative center of the state, it is necessary to take into account the historical period. The authors present a methodological scheme for analysing the factors of colonization and formation of the Saratov Volga region administrative structure and take into account changes in identifying the Cossacks (voluntary and serving).
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YAKOVENKO, Yanina. "THE RECEPTION OF HETMAN IVAN MAZEPA IN FRANCISZEK RAWITA-GAWROŃSKI’S WRITINGS." Folia Philologica, no. 1 (2021): 78–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/folia.philologica/2021/1/9.
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The article analyzes the image of the Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazepa in the works of Franciszek Rawita-Gawroński.In his works, the Cossacks have always had a negative connotation regardless of their positive features and historicalmission. The powerful Ukrainian army, which repeatedly sided with the Polish nobility, could not change the opinionof the author, who throughout his career considered them a destructive force. The Cossacks became such an organicphenomenon in Polish literature that it completely captured the imagination of the Romantics. Polish writers were happyto describe historical events in which Poles and Ukrainians united against a common enemy, such as the Turks. Rawita-Gawroński was no exception, although he was a representative of the period of positivism, but did not completely abandonthe traditions of the previous era. The writer critically assessed the existence and functioning of the Cossacks, whichwas a powerful and multifaceted group of human types, which in turn reveals its apolitical, anti-social and immoralnature. In his novels, Franciszek Rawita-Gawroński tried to avoid the poetics of romanticism, but did not refuse to usethe achievements of Ukrainian folklore, customs, traditions and legends, which are inextricably linked with the Cossacks. In the analyzed novels, Franciszek Rawita-Gawroński used a realistic method, using probability criteria, mainly in the wayof motivating events and figures. Ukrainian Cossacks have always caused a storm of emotions, both positive and negative.Speaking of Rawita-Gawroński, in his works the Cossack has always been a negative character, without taking intoaccount his positive qualities. His Cossack is a robber, a slacker, a drunkard who seeks only robbery and cruelty. However,the only representative of the Ukrainian Cossacks who aroused Rawita-Gawroński's respect was Ivan Mazepa, whomthe author described as a powerful and wise ruler capable of great historically important actions.
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Hromovych, Uliana. "Union of Cossack-nationalists in bulgaria": consolidation of the Cossack movement in documents of the 1930s." Chornomors’ka Mynuvshyna, no. 17 (December 31, 2022): 141–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2519-2523.2022.17.268835.
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The readers are offered documents about the Cossack cultural, educational and charitable brotherhood "Union of Cossack Nationalists in Bulgaria". During the specified period, the Cossacks experienced a difficult period of restoration, elevation and transformations. In the conditions of large-scale revolutionary movements and the armed struggle for Ukrainian statehood, attempts to consolidate Ukrainian emigration and the use of individual Ukrainian military-Cossack traditions in their activities played a rather noticeable role. During this time, the Ukrainian emigration created many Cossack centers abroad, which were engaged in popularizing the ideas of the Cossacks, the history of Ukraine in emigration, and sought the restoration of independent Ukraine. Today, this experience of the Cossack movement in the 1930s remains little-known for today, is little covered in literature and is available only in archives. Therefore, the found documents are valuable because they contain information about the activities, ideas and leaders of the Union of Cossack Nationalists in Bulgaria. With the help of documents, the article for the first time determined the approximate date of foundation and traced the main tasks of the society. The article found that the society had a charter that regulated its activities, participated in events of the Ukrainian diaspora in Bulgaria, interacted with the government and other organizations.
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Volvenko, Alexey. "“New” Cossack Troops in Government Projects and Official Notes of the 1860s." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, no. 2 (May 2021): 68–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2021.2.5.
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Introduction. The article considers the government policy for the Cossacks in the 1860s. During this period, the processes of organization/reorganization of the Cossack troops were most brightly shown. These processes were developed against the background of discussions between imperial officials about the roles and values of the Cossacks from the point of view of his military and colonization potential. Only the Semirechensky (Almaty) army created in 1867 was a “new” Cossack army for the empire. Methods and materials. As the main material for writing the article the contemporary records found in the 330th fund of the Russian state military and historical archive (Moscow) and the Historical archive of Omsk region (Omsk) served. The note of the chief of Tersky region in 1863–1875 M.T. Loris-Melikov “About education of the Transcaucasian Cossack army”, prepared in December, 1868, is of particular importance. The specifics of the sources attracted required the use of methods of source studies in accordance with the type of documents under consideration, followed by the structural analysis of the identified data based on the systematic approach. Discussion. The announced subject is poorly developed in historical literature, and only the studying of Semirechensky Cossack army history has a long tradition. Separately, the question of the place of the Cossacks in the projects for the administrative structure of the Central Asian possessions of the empire and plans for the training of new troops, except for Semirechensk, has not yet been considered in historiography. Analysis. At the initiative of the governor general of Western Siberia A.P. Khrushchov in 1867–1868, projects on the organizations of the Irtysh, Akmola, Semipalatinsk Cossack troops, as well as plans for the resettlement of the Cossacks to the lands bordering Western China, were prepared. Despite the support of the initiatives of A.P. Khrushchov from the Minister of War D.A. Milyutin and the Steppe commission, the projected Cossack troops nevertheless were not created, and the Cossack colonization of border territories did not take place. The negative decision of the authorities was also made on the note of the chief of Tersky region M.T. Loris-Melikov “About education of the Transcaucasian Cossack army” (1868). Conclusions. The article examines the reasons why colonization plans and projects for the creation of new Cossack troops were unclaimed in the 1860s.
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Maftyn, Larysa. "Formation of a Patriotic Personality in the Educational Process of a Modern School Using the Means of Cossack Pedagogics." Problems of Education, no. 2(99) (December 2, 2023): 163–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.52256/2710-3986.2-99.2023.11.
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The article is devoted to the problem of patriotic upbringing of a growing personality and the disclosure of the role of Cossack pedagogy in this process. The author carried out an analysis of the study of the problem of patriotic education in scientific literature; the educational potential of Cossack pedagogy is emphasized, as it contributes to the formation of a nationally conscious personality, ready to defend the national interests of its state if necessary.
The purpose of the article is to highlight the peculiarities of patriotic upbringing of a growing personality based on the heroic traditions of the Ukrainian Cossacks in the conditions of modern challenges.
In the conditions of martial law, the education of a growing personality in the glorious traditions of Ukrainian Cossacks, the popularization of Cossack ideals in society becomes especially relevant. Cossack traditions, as the embodiment of national values, renew the modern educational process, fill it with patriotic content, strengthen the philosophy of the National School of Education, the Strategy of National Patriotic Education, and contribute to the formation of the Ukrainian-centric value sphere of the individual.
In order to encourage schoolchildren to personal growth, motivation for self-realization, a healthy lifestyle, tempering of will and character, readiness to protect their land, priority areas of work are such as: studying the history of the Ukrainian Cossacks, heroic traditions of brave knights and their popularization; organization of sports and health camps; creation of martial arts groups, etc.
Among the features of the upbringing of a growing personality in the traditions of the Ukrainian Cossacks, we include the following: taking into account the age characteristics of students; careful selection of the content of such educational material, which will contribute to the development of the student's ability to willfully regulate his behavior, leadership qualities, perseverance, valuable national guidelines; use of the health-saving potential of the traditions of Cossack pedagogy in the realities of war (psychological support, work with stress, anxiety reduction, breathing practices, stimulation of positive emotions); reasonableness and systematicity in the application of Ukrainian Cossack traditions in the process of educational influence on students.
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Gagkuev, Ruslan, and Svetlana Shilova. "“The Terek Host Cleaned out the Native Villages from the Infection with Their Own Hands”: Gorsko-Mozdok Regiments in the Ranks of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia in the Early 1919." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, no. 4 (September 2019): 84–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2019.4.7.
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Introduction. The article focuses on the creation of Gorsko-Mozdock regiments of the Terek Cossack Host in the Early 1919 and their subsequent participation in combat operations. The article provides an overview of related historical literature and underlines the importance of further research into the history of the Terek Cossack Host during the Civil War and publication of historical sources. The introduction provides a detailed account of how Terek Cossacks were drafted to the Armed Forces of the South of Russia, and touches upon the difficulties associated with mobilization (not enough officers, undermanning, shortage of weapons and typhus outbreak). Materials. The article introduces a previously unavailable historical source – the order of Terek Cossack Host Mozdock division Ataman Yesaul S.N. Portyanko dated January 17, 1919 on the commencement of mobilization and formation of Cossack regiments. Analysis. The order demonstrates overly optimistic expectations of the Cossack leadership regarding the support of the local population and mobilization results. In real life, fast implementation of the command’s plans proved to be impossible due to the situation in Cossack stanitsas. The document shows the Cossack command’s commitment to mobilize all available resources in order to defeat the Soviet power. Results. The article sums up the considerations by pointing out that during the Civil War the majority of the Terek Cossack Host opposed the Soviet power and supplied considerable human resources to the Armed Forces of the South of Russia. Despite the aforementioned difficulties caused by the situation in the region, the formation of Cossack regiments went rather well, and soon these regiments were dispatched to the front. The efforts undertaken by the Terek Cossack Host in the war against the Soviet power in 1919–1920 show the Cossacks’ unwavering commitment to give their all to victory. Upon the evacuation of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia from the Black Sea coast to the Crimea, Terek Cossacks could no longer hope for reinforcement and were incorporated into other White military units.
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Chapygin, Igor V., and Ksenia A. Smirnova. "Cultural Activity of the Cossack Emigration in the Territory of the Three Rivers." Humanitarian Vector 18, no. 1 (April 2023): 56–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.21209/1996-7853-2023-18-1-56-63.
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The article examines the appearance of the Russian Cossacks on the territory of Northwestern Manchuria, namely the Three Rivers, the construction of the first settlements, their cultural life and the translation of Russian traditions. The authors of the work set a goal to study the contribution of the emigrant community to the development of the image of this region, the process of preserving traditional orders and foundations. This problem is considered in the article from the material and spiritual-social directions of culture. The relevance of the topic is due to the process of returning to active social activity of the Cossacks. In modern Russian society, discussions about the essence of the Cossacks, the economic, moral, social and spiritual foundations of their life do not cease. The authors use the fundamental principles of historical science. The principle of objectivity made it possible to evaluate the analyzed historical documents taking into account the subjectivity of their author. Representatives of the Cossack emigration in the Three Rivers were active in cultural life, which against the background of the cultural life of other emigration groups, was distinguished by its initiative. All achievements in different aspects of culture had a special Russian personality. They were reflected not only in everyday life and material culture, but also in the development of institutions such as education, literature, publications, the church, etc. Arriving on the Manchurian side, the Cossacks brought with them their way of life and culture, which strengthened on foreign territory and became a reference point for the development of the region. Thanks to the location of the Chinese authorities, the Three Rivers began to grow and develop rapidly. People fleeing wanted to feel like an integral part of Russia. Various representatives of the emigrant Cossacks, including the intelligentsia, the clergy, sought to support the Russian spirit and opposed assimilation. The paper identifies and seems promising the need for further research, reconstruction, translation and support of the Cossack culture of the Russian Three Rivers.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Cossacks in literature"
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Kovalchuk, Anna. "Narrating the National Future: The Cossacks in Ukrainian and Russian Literature." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22705.
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This dissertation investigates nineteenth-century narrative representations of the Cossacks—multi-ethnic warrior communities from the historical borderlands of empire, known for military strength, pillage, and revelry—as contested historical figures in modern identity politics. Rather than projecting today’s political borders into the past and proceeding from the claim that the Cossacks are either Russian or Ukrainian, this comparative project analyzes the nineteenth-century narratives that transform pre-national Cossack history into national patrimony. Following the Romantic era debates about national identity in the Russian empire, during which the Cossacks become part of both Ukrainian and Russian national self-definition, this dissertation focuses on the role of historical narrative in these burgeoning political projects. Drawing on Alexander Pushkin’s Poltava (1828), Nikolai Gogol’s Taras Bulba (1835, 1842), and Taras Shevchenko’s Haidamaky (1842), this dissertation traces the relationship between Cossack history, the poet-historian, and possible national futures in Ukrainian and Russian Romantic literature. In the age of empire, these literary representations shaped the emerging Ukrainian and Russian nations, conceptualized national belonging in terms of the domestic family unit, and reimagined the genealogical relationship between Ukrainian and Russian history. Uniting the national “we” in its readership, these Romantic texts prioritize the poet-historian’s creative, generative power and their ability to discover, legitimate, and project the nation into the future. This framework shifts the focus away from the political nation-state to emphasize the unifying power of shared narrative history and the figurative, future-oriented, and narrative genesis of national imaginaries.
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Ledohowski, Lindy Anne. "Canadian Cossacks: Finding Ukraine in Fifty Years of Ukrainian-Canadian Literature in English." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/16761.
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Discourses of diaspora and transnationalism have begun to question previous traditional assumptions about the inevitability of ethnic assimilation by drawing attention to various kinds of hybrid identities, but I contend that, in contemporary Canadian literature, we cannot replace an outmoded model of eventual integration with an uncritical vision of ethnic persistence and hybridity. Much thinking about diasporic and ethnic identities suggests that, on the one hand, there are genuine marginalized identities worthy of inquiry and, on the other, there are symbolic ones undeserving of serious study. This dissertation focuses on the supposedly disingenuous or symbolic kinds of ethnic and diasporic identities, providing an analysis of Ukrainian-Canadian ethnic identity retention in a case study of second-, third-, and fourth-generation Canadians of Ukrainian descent who both read and write in English (not Ukrainian). Looking at Ukrainian-Canadian literature from 1954 to 2003, this dissertation argues: (1) ethnic identity affiliation does not necessarily dissipate with time; (2) ethnic identity in a hostland manifests itself as imagined ties to a homeland; and (3) lacking meaningful public and private recognition of ethnic group membership yields anxiety about subjectivity. I first argue that as multicultural policies drew attention to racial marginalization, Ukrainian-Canadian ethnic identity shifted from being an aspect of socio-economic disenfranchisement to becoming a hyphenated identity with links to Ukraine. I then suggest that in order to make that connection to Ukraine viable, writers attempt to locate Ukraine on the Canadian prairie as a substitute home-country. Such attempts give rise to various images Ukrainian-Canadian uneasiness and discomfort, primarily as authors struggle to account for First Nations’ prior presences on the landscape that they want to write as their own. Further, I analyze attempts to locate ethnic authenticity in post-independence Ukraine that also prove unsatisfactory for Ukrainian-Canadian subject formation. The many failed attempts to affix Ukrainian-Canadianness as a meaningful public and private identity give rise to unsettled and ghostly images that signal significant ethnic unease not to be overlooked in analyses of ethnic and diasporic identities. In these ways, this dissertation contributes to ongoing debates and discussions about the place of contemporary literary ethnicity in Canada.
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HEN-KONARSKI, Tomasz. "Cossacks and gauchos : myths of masculinity in the political struggles of the River Plate and Ukraine, 1830s through 1840s." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/45869.
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Defence date: 21 March 2017Examining Board: Lucy Riall, EUI (Supervisor); Pieter Judson, EUI; Nicola Miller, UCL; Larry Wolff, NYU
In my dissertation I study the ways in which the literary figures of free males on horseback, the Cossacks and the gauchos, were endowed with political meanings in the River Plate and Ukraine of the 1830s and 1840s. My study is located within the field of history of political culture with special attention paid to ideology, its symbolical representations and the ways in which they formed part of broader mythologies. The two cases are not studied for their own sake, but as examples of complex ideological tensions caused by the expansion of state and the transformation of bourgeois society. What brings their stories together is their having a common point of reference in the late Enlightenment/Romantic fantasy of ‘nonmodernity’ of which the anarchic frontier horseman is just one symbol. The overarching question that I address is how several different actors in their contingent environments employed these symbols to construct the male subject of modern politics (modernity being understood here as a disciplinary myth and a claim-making concept, rather than a tangible historical condition). I offer contextualized interpretations of several texts: verse journals directed at uneducated subalterns of Buenos Aires at the beginning of 1830s; a historical novel by Nikolai Gogol; a celebrated biographical essay by Domingo F. Sarmiento; pulp novels, secret reports, memoirs and propaganda dossiers of Michał Czajkowski, a Polish-Lithuanian politician and military commander based in Istanbul; Polishand Ukrainian-language writings of several minor authors from Austrian Galicia. I show that the Cossack/gaucho myths are just two examples of dream about the free life beyond the limitations imposed by the state and society. In fact, that dream was present in many other environments and took many different guises, US cowboys being just one obvious, though chronologically later, example. Such longings were inextricably linked to the global ‘structured transformations’ interpreted by the historical actors as the rise of ‘modernity,’ though clearly the figure of anarchic frontier horseman was not the only conceptual tool used to cope with them. What made the Cossack/gaucho myths so successful was that they were a very specific antithesis of ‘modernity,’ one that combined 1) the rejection of state and family; 2) the claim to be truly native; 3) and the promise of liberating the repressed masculine instincts.
Books on the topic "Cossacks in literature"
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Maude, Aylmer, Tolstoy Leo, and Louise Maude (translator). Cossacks. Independently Published, 2021.
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Achilli, Alessandro. "Towards a New Postcolonial Ukrainian Literature:." In Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes, 604–17. Academic Studies Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1zjg9jq.43.
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"Towards a New Postcolonial Ukrainian Literature: Ievheniia Kononenko’s A Russian Story." In Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes, 604–17. Academic Studies Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781644693025-040.
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"Chapter 4. Jews as Cossacks: A Symbiosis in Literature and Life." In Soviet Jews in World War II, 85–103. Academic Studies Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781618116864-006.
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Zantaria, Vladimir K. "The Caucasus in the Life and World Perception of L.N. Tolstoy (Generalization of the Experience of Studying the Caucasian Problems)." In Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 2, 261–72. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/arl-2023-2-261-272.
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The author’s reflections on the role of the Caucasus in the life and work of L.N. Tolstoy are intertwined with an analytical review of contemporary research on this topic. The unrelenting interest of Tolstoy scholars in the difficult Caucasian period of the life and work of the classic, which is largely associated with the formation of a historical and philosophical concept and with moral quests, is noted. The diverse points of view of scientists with their polyphony actualize the value-ethical problems of a universal scale, indicated by the writer in the stories and novels “Raid,” “Cutting the Forest,” “Notes of the Marker,” “Degraded,” “Prisoner of the Caucasus,” “Cossacks,” “Hadji Murat” and others, give an additional impetus to research attention to the Caucasian artistic model of Tolstoy’s worldview. It is emphasized that the deep originality of the culture of the highlanders, the life-giving spirit and energy of Caucasian mythology, oral folk art in general, were a unique breeding ground for Tolstoy, which gave an extraordinary clarity of thoughts and feelings, the opportunity to take a different look at the surrounding reality. The assumption is supported that Tolstoy was directly or indirectly associated with prominent representatives of the Abkhaz intelligentsia.
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Marichik-Sioli, Youlia A. "Reception of the Novel “Taras Bulba” in International Literary Studies." In The Non-Euclidean Geometry of Yuri Mann: In Memoriam, 406–28. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0754-0-406-428.
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This article recounts the brief history of the interpretation and reception of the novel “Taras Bulba” by European and American literary critics and historians in the 19th and 20th centuries. Special attention is paid to the first translation of the novel into French in 1845. In the second half of the 19th century, the novel was perceived both in France and England as a talented imitation of the Western literary classics (Homer, Rabelais, Hofmann, Balzac, Scott...). On the other hand, the writer’s name immediately became associated with a unique writing style and the creation of a picturesque and legendary image of the Cossacks. In the 20th century, at least two major historical and cultural approaches emerged to the study of the writer’s work — psychoanalysis and the national question. Since the late 1950s, following the work of H. McLean, many international scholars have analysed hidden erotic motifs both in the writer’s work in general and in the novel “Taras Bulba” in particular. Since the late 1960s, a major approach to the study of Gogol’s literary heritage, which still remains relevant today, is the consideration of the writer’s national identity and his affiliation with Russian and/or Ukrainian culture, history and literature. Today, Gogol’s multiple, hybrid, and fragmented identity is variously evaluated by researchers depending on their viewpoint and position.
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Dmitriyev, Andrey P. "About publications of Aleksey Khomyakov’s works and problems for the future: unknown, unpublished, uncollected." In Literary process in Russia of the 18 th — 19 th centuries. Secular and spiritual literature, 436–64. А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/lit.pr.2020-2-436-464.
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The article on the material of unpublished archival documents (mainly epistolary) highlights the unknown details of the preparation of the Complete Works of Aleksey Khomyakov, which survived from 1861 to 1907. There are five editions; their differences from each other are investigated. An annotated bibliographic review of the best editions of Aleksey Khomyakov, published in the Russian Diaspora and in the USSR, as well as in Russia over the past 30 years, is given. In anticipation of the release of the modern, scientifically verified Complete Works of the writer in 10 volumes, prepared at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the guidance of Boris Yegorov, the most significant achievements of the research group are described, especially about the finds in the archives and periodicals of unknown works of Aleksey Khomyakov and the publication of his creative manuscripts. For some of them (“Song of the Cossack”, “Experience in Improving Winter Roads by Rolling”, etc.), updated dates are given. A number of texts (“Genius”, “The Sexton”) were first attributed to Aleksey Khomyakov according to stylistic and thematic features, as well as memoirs. The in-neat autographs, fragments of the poems “Winter Anthem” and “The Sexton” are published for the first time, and the full text of Aleksey Khomyakov’s ballad “The Prisoner” (the early 1820s) is presented in the appendix to the article.
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Vinogradov, Igor’ A. "“In a foreign Lands I’m Idly Living...” Count Alexei Tolstoy as a Descendant of Hetman Razumovsky." In Literary Process in Russia of the 18th–19th Centuries. Secular and Spiritual Literature. Issue 3, 614–24. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/lit.pr.2022-3-614-624.
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The article examines one of the sides of the political views of the Count A.K. Tolstoy in connection with the content of the book by V.A. Kotelnikov dedicated to the his life and work. Aleksey Tolstoy’s attitude to Russian statehood is compared with N.V. Gogol. The basis for comparison is not only the fact that the writers were contemporaries, but also the fact that both had representatives of the Cossack foremen in their family, i. e. Ukrainian hetmans. The aticle shows how a firm position on the issue of statehood determines the personal fate of a person on the example of two Russian writers — hetman’s descendants. It shows also the difference in approaches to the high patriotic service of Count Tolstoy, a friend of the Heir, a childhood friend of Emperor Alexander II, and Gogol, who became close in the 1830s with another friend of the Tsarevich, Count I.M. Vielgorsky, and then intended to take the place of an educator at the Court — under the son of the Heir, Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich. The author of the article restores ideological and political context, which makes it possible to adequately assess Tolstoy’s well-known review of Gogol in a letter to his cousin L.M. Zhemchuzhnikov in 1852. The conclusion consists in the fact that the consistent position of the creator of “Taras Bulba” in relation to the historical future of Little Russia as part of a united Russia.
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Shcherbak, Vitalii. "КОЗАЦЬКА ТЕМАТИКА В ТВОРЧОСТІ ТИМОША ПАДУРИ / COSSACK THEMES IN THE WORKS OF TYMOSH PADURA." In «УКРАЇНСЬКА ШКОЛА» У ПОЛЬСЬКІЙ ТА АВСТРІЙСЬКІЙ ЛІТЕРАТУРІ. ЖИТТЯ І ТВОРЧІСТЬ ТОМАША ПАДУРИ: ФАКТИ І ПРОБЛЕМИ / ‘UKRAINIAN SCHOOL’ IN POLISH AND AUSTRIAN LITERATURE. LIFE AND WORK OF TOMASZ PADURA: FACTS AND PROBLEMS, 150–60. Publishing House "Krok", 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.37835/692-870-6.07.
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У статті висвітлено образ козацької України XVI-XVIII ст. у творчій спадщині польського поета і письменника Томаша Падури. Вказано на джерела, які він використовував, та реалії сучасної йому епохи. У творах автора відображені яскраві події та явища козацької доби: лицарський дух запорожців, спільні перемоги українців і поляків над зовнішніми ворогами. Проте, проголошуючи ідею польсько-українського єднання, Падура оминав конфліктні сторінки в їх минулому, прагнув, насамперед, залучити український народ до боротьби за польську справу – визволення з-під російського імперського гніту. Таким чином етнічне походження Тимоша Падури вплинуло на об’єктивне сприйняття і висвітленням минулого України.
Conference papers on the topic "Cossacks in literature"
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Rudenko, M. S. "BULGAKOV AND SHOLOKCHOV IN THE LITERARY CRITICISM OF THE FIRST WAVE OF RUSSIAN EMIGRATION." In VIII International Conference “Russian Literature of the 20th-21st Centuries as a Whole Process (Issues of Theoretical and Methodological Research)”. LCC MAKS Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m3725.rus_lit_20-21/194-198.
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The question of how the first wave of emigration evaluates the works of Bulgakov and Sholokhov is far from simple. While Bulgakov is perceived by emigrants as a Soviet, or at least “sub-Soviet” writer, such definitions are not given to Sholokhov. It is obvious that Sholokhov is perceived as a writer of the first rank, a singer of the Cossacks, and the creator of a wide epic canvas. The completely socialist realist “Virgin Soil Upturned” also receives a fairly positive assessment. At the same time, critics are obviously biased towards Bulgakov. He is valued as a satirist, but his position in “The White Guard” and especially in “Days of the Turbins” is regarded rather as Soviet, and his objectivity is sometimes interpreted as slander. If Sholokhov is perceived almost without criticism, then critical arrows fall on Bulgakov not only from Khodasevich and Adamovich, who seem to be quite unanimous on this issue, but also from a number of connoisseurs of Russian literature.
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Redkin, V. "THE ROMANTIC BASIS IN THE POEM “SONG ABOUT THE DEATH OF THE COSSACK ARMY” BY P. VASILIEV." In VIII International Conference “Russian Literature of the 20th-21st Centuries as a Whole Process (Issues of Theoretical and Methodological Research)”. LCC MAKS Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m3706.rus_lit_20-21/118-122.
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The author examines one of the most striking works of P. Vasiliev - the poem “The Song about the death of the Cossack army” (1928-1932), which widely demonstrates the possibilities of a romantic poem. P. Vasiliev is undoubtedly a representative of the recreating type of creativity. At the same time, the romantic nature of the work is manifested not only in the characteristic poetics: bright unusual images, saturation of the text with metaphors and symbols, fragmentary composition, rhythmic diversity, shifts of stressed syllables and stylization of folk verse, but also in the vivid personal characteristics of the characters, their confrontation with cruel reality. They are passionate natures capable of deep love and hatred, nobility and cruelty. The poet develops the Blok tradition by referring to the symbol, making extensive use of complex chains of associations. Vasiliev also uses the artistic experience of the revolutionary romantic poem of the 20s.
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Мишина, Н. В., and В. В. Ермошин. "MAPPING OF INTERNAL ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES OF PRIMORSKAYA OBLAST OF THE BEGINNING OF THE XXTH CENTURY." In Геосистемы Северо-Восточной Азии. Crossref, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35735/tig.2021.55.32.028.
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В настоящей работе представлены результаты восстановления схемы административно-территориального деления Приморской области начала ХХ в. Картографирование границ области и ее уездов, волостей, казачьих станичных округов, городов было проведено на основе картографических и литературных материалов 1915-1917 гг. Для административно-территориальных единиц разного ранга рассчитаны площади, проведено их сопоставление с литературными материалами и оценками, полученными авторами ранее. The paper presents the results of reconstructing of the of the administrative-territorial division scheme of the Primorskaya Oblast at the beginning of the XXth century. We mapped borders of the Oblast and its counties, volosts, Cossack stanitsa districts and cities on the basis of cartographic and literary materials of 1915-1917. Areas of administrative-territorial units of different ranks were calculated and compared with literature materials and estimates obtained by the authors earlier.
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Gordienko, Olga Antonovna, and Yuriy Stanislavovich Rykhalsky. "The ethno-cultural competence development of foreign students studying in the Kuban in the process of getting acquainted with the Cossack and Adyghe literature and culture." In International applied research conference. TSNS Interaktiv Plus, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21661/r-119380.
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