The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering

by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

Book Overview

Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing humility as the mother of virtues, the trauma of the Bolshevik revolution, the current economic upheavals wracking the country-- these are only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814774822
• ISBN13: 9780814774823
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"