Between Heaven and Earth: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture

Introduction Y.Slezkine & G.Diment - Savage Christians or Unorthodox Russians: The Missionary Dilemma in Siberia Y.Slezkine, - Avvakum and the Genesis of Siberian Literature B.T.Holl - Exiled from Siberia: The Construction of Siberian Experience by Early Nineteenth Century Irkutsk Writers: G.Diment - Paradoxical Perceptions of Siberia: Patrician and Plebeian Images up to the Mid-1880s J.R.Gibson 'Vo Glubine Sibirskikh Rud': Siberia and the Myth of Exile H.Murav - The Regionalist Conception of Siberia, 1860-1920 S.Watrous - Lenin and the Siberian Peasant Insurrections N.G.O.Pereira - Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma L.Toker - Vasilii Shukshin and His Siberia J.Givens - Stereotyping Interethnic Communication: The Siberian Native in Soviet Literature J.Nichols - The Divided Self: Yuri Rytkheu and Contemporary Chukchi Literature A.Barker - Siberia Hot and Cold: Reconstructing the Image of Siberian Indigenous People B.Grant - A Paradise Lost? Siberia and its Writers, 1960-1990 D.Gillespie - Index