The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Cult of Ivan the Terrrible in Stalin's Russia. By MAUREEN PERRIE. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2001. xv+255 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-65684-9.

In the perestroika period, when once again there was a review of Russian and Soviet history, Russia was jokingly called the country with 'an unpredictable past'. Meanwhile, the transformations of Russian history were quite predictable both in the Soviet and in the post-Soviet epoch. The circumstance that in the Stalin era, parallel to the formation of the Stalin cult we see the unprecedented progress of a cult of Ivan the ...

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