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- 9781618118066
- ISBN
- 1618118064
- Binding
- TP
- Item Weight
- 0.93
- Item Height
- 0.63
- Book Title
- The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov: A Russian Nati
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Series
- Imperial Russia Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov : a Russian National Myth
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Number of Pages
- 298 Pages
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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.
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Academic Studies Press
ISBN-10
1618118064
ISBN-13
9781618118066
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27038714987
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Publication Name
Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov : a Russian National Myth
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Series
Imperial Russia Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
298 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
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The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov has potential appeal to a number of audiences. For historians of science, this study provides insight into the particularities of the Russian case and how it differs from, and is similar to, the veneration and self-fashioning of non-Russian scientists such as Galileo in early modern Europe or Benjamin Franklin in the United States. Historians of Russia and the Soviet Union will also profit from this book's intriguing ideas about the 'mythogenic' qualities of Russian culture, where cults of personality-- beginning with political figures and extending to the pantheon of literary, engineering, and cosmonaut heroes--play such a prominent role in politics and in the propagation of ideas about what it means to be a Russian., The substance and merit of Usitalo's study is his richly documented and copiously footnoted critical reconstruction of the myth of Lomonosov the scientist and its growth and reconfigurations over time, set within the broader context of the pan-European perception of scientific biography., With his book, Usitalo has proven that it is possible to write in an original way about an old topic and make it exciting and relevant. The author not only deconstructs and obliterates the old myth, but retraces the true story of Lomonosov, the scientist. . . . With this book Usitalo advances not just our understanding of Lomonosov, but opens the window to a larger study of the role of myth-making in the development of national consciousness., Steven A. Usitalo's The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov: A Russian National Myth is a pioneering study of Mikhail Lomonosov's scholarly reputation in the Russian cultural imagination. As every Russian has been learning in school beginning in the mid-nineteenth century until the present, Lomonosov was a polymath, a genius to whom Russian culture is indebted for the creation of not only poetry but also of virtually every other scientific and social discipline, including chemistry, physics, geography, history, and linguistics. The author convincingly demonstrates the mythological nature of this reputation and traces its emergence from the eighteenth-century biographies of Lomonosov to the work of the most enthusiastic twentieth-century historian of Lomonosov's life and work, Boris Menshutkin, whose many articles and books have solidified and perpetuated the myth of Lomonosov as the greatest national genius. Erudite and skillfully argued, the book is bound to become obligatory reading for every Lomonosov scholar, science and literary historians alike., [Usitalo's] book masterfully demonstrates the power of national narrative and tradition in constructing history.
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Modern / 18th Century, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, General, Literary, History, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Dewey Decimal
509.2
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Science, History, Literary Collections
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