Reflecting on Jeffrey Brooks’ The Firebird and the Fox: The Unusual but True Adventures of a Soviet Agronomist

IF 0.2 4区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY
Muireann Maguire
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This essay responds to Jeffrey Brooks’ 2020 monograph The Firebird and the Fox, drawing attention to Brooks’ emphasis on a set of cultural symbols persistent during the historical period he surveys, and on the social activism which he identifies with leading Russian cultural figures such as Tolstoi and Chekhov. In support of Brooks’ argument, I present the example of Aleksandr Chaianov (1888–1937), a specialist in agronomy and amateur writer whose reputation as a driver of early Soviet agricultural policy was overshadowed by his arrest in 1930 and subsequent exile and execution. Chaianov’s social activism, as expressed in his short fiction and historical essays, took the form of reminding his readers about the cultural continuities between Russia’s past, present, and future.
反思杰弗里·布鲁克斯的《火鸟与狐狸:一位苏联农学家不同寻常但真实的冒险》
本文是对杰弗里·布鲁克斯2020年出版的专著《火鸟与狐狸》的回应,让人们注意到布鲁克斯对一组在他调查的历史时期持续存在的文化符号的强调,以及他认为与托尔斯泰和契诃夫等俄罗斯主要文化人物有关的社会激进主义。为了支持布鲁克斯的观点,我举了亚历山大·查亚诺夫(1888-1937)的例子,他是农学专家和业余作家,1930年被捕,随后被流放和处决,使他作为苏联早期农业政策推动者的声誉蒙上了阴影。查亚诺夫的社会行动主义表现在他的短篇小说和历史散文中,以提醒读者俄罗斯过去、现在和未来之间的文化连续性的形式出现。
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期刊介绍: Russian History’s mission is the publication of original articles on the history of Russia through the centuries, in the assumption that all past experiences are inter-related. Russian History seeks to discover, analyze, and understand the most interesting experiences and relationships and elucidate their causes and consequences. Contributors to the journal take their stand from different perspectives: intellectual, economic and military history, domestic, social and class relations, relations with non-Russian peoples, nutrition and health, all possible events that had an influence on Russia. Russian History is the international platform for the presentation of such findings.
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