Fifty-Five Years with Russia / / Magnus Ljunggren.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ASP eBook Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Ljunggren, Magnus,
• Author: Ljunggren, Magnus,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (104 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Fifty-Five Years with Russia --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781618115393; 9783110688160
• DOI: 10.1515/9781618115393
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Magnus Ljunggren.

The academic career of internationally recognized Professor of Slavic Studies Magnus Ljunggren spans more than a half century. Here he looks back over his meetings with prominent members of the Russian intelligentsia who from the liberalizing XXII Party Congress in 1961 and down to the present have in various forms struggled with the totalitarian structures of Soviet and post-Soviet society. As a literary scholar Ljunggren has focused on Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg, Russian Symbolism and Russian Silver Age literature and culture. His memoirs reflect on how his study of Symbolism and his commitment to the Russian civil rights movement over the years have stimulated each other and contributed to a deeper understanding of Russia's distinctive character. Ljunggren's gallery of intimate and colorful portraits includes Bulat Okudzhava, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Joseph Brodsky, Viktor Shklovsky, Lidia Chukovskaya, and Nina Berberova.