Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature.(Review)

Canadian Journal of History | December 1, 2000| | Copyright

Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature, by Irina Reyfman. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv, 364 pp. $49.50 U.S. (cloth).

This work is a commendable effort to combine literary and historical studies to explore the complexities of dueling and the concept of honor in pre-revolutionary Russia. Relying primarily on literary and memoir sources, Professor Reyfman devotes half her study to an extensive historical survey of dueling in Russia and then focuses on the duel in eighteenth and nineteenth-century ...

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