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cussion. Indeed, he did not intend to. The importance of all this, he observes, is that his- torians have mistaken despotism for some necessary, useful historical process. Here along with many other commentators on Russia's past Yanov expresses his moral outrage at the facile essays which depict Ivan IV warring with "treasonous" elements in society. As he aptly puts it, these justifications o f terror and despotism resemble rather too closely similar justifications from other times in Russia's past. Despots are never happy with dis- sidents, nor could they be expected to be. But what troubles Yanov is that the historical profession, and consequently popular opinion at large, has caved in to the despots and agreed to view them as historically progressive and necessary. Ivaniana, as he calls it, has imprisoned Russia's present and doomed it to repeat the terror and despotism o f the six- teenth century. Such a view fails to take into account a great deal, but it is nevertheless provocative. On the other hand, much o f Yanov's prose is tendentious, and occasionally difficult to get through. The language of typologies is at one and.the same time frustratingly dense and overly simplistic (see the
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1982
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