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Self and Storyin Russian History. Edited by Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. ix, 363 pp. $22.50 (paper).

Self and Storyin Russian History. Edited by Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler. Ithaca, NY:... S e l f a n d Story in Russian History. Edited by Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. ix, 363 pp. $22.50 (paper). This edited volume provides an excellent example of how disciplines can comple- ment each other around a well-chosen focus. Based on a conference held in 1996, this collection gathers together historians of Russia and the USSR, as well as scholars of literature, film, and gender studies, to consider the ways in which individuals have narrated themselves or have been narrated by others in the modem period in Russia. By examining a range of media, including novels, diaries and films, the authors study the process of self-creation engaged in by Russians (the "[articulation of] the sense of self' [p. 3] as the editors put it) through various historical periods and under various constraints. The essays are arranged in reverse chronological order from the Soviet period to the eighteenth century, in an effort to avoid traditional teleologies of pro- gress or decline and the better to show "how an ever-unfolding present produces a continuously rewritten past." (p. 4) The three essays devoted to the Soviet period explore the possibilities of individual http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Self and Storyin Russian History. Edited by Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. ix, 363 pp. $22.50 (paper).

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Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 36 (4): 488 – Jan 1, 2002
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S e l f a n d Story in Russian History. Edited by Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. ix, 363 pp. $22.50 (paper). This edited volume provides an excellent example of how disciplines can comple- ment each other around a well-chosen focus. Based on a conference held in 1996, this collection gathers together historians of Russia and the USSR, as well as scholars of literature, film, and gender studies, to consider the ways in which individuals have narrated themselves or have been narrated by others in the modem period in Russia. By examining a range of media, including novels, diaries and films, the authors study the process of self-creation engaged in by Russians (the "[articulation of] the sense of self' [p. 3] as the editors put it) through various historical periods and under various constraints. The essays are arranged in reverse chronological order from the Soviet period to the eighteenth century, in an effort to avoid traditional teleologies of pro- gress or decline and the better to show "how an ever-unfolding present produces a continuously rewritten past." (p. 4) The three essays devoted to the Soviet period explore the possibilities of individual

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