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Rozanov

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Ideology in Russian Literature

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The personality and thought of Rozanov are characterised by astonishing breadth and haphazardness, variety and contradictoriness and a mutually contradictory paradoxicality in the judgements expressed. Rozanov very often denied something and simultaneously asserted it, yet with equal sincerity and fervour. He himself admitted as much with astonishing candour:

I wrote both ‘black’ [i.e. ‘Black Hundreds’] articles and SR [i.e. ‘revolutionary’] ones. And I believed in both. Isn’t there 1/100th of a truth in revolution and 1/100th truth in the Black Hundreds?1

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  1. V. Rozanov, Opavshie list’ia. Korob vtoroi (Petrograd, 1915) p. 160.

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  2. ‘Vestnik Russkogo Khristianskogo Dvizheniia’, no.112–13 (1974) pp. 143–4.

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  12. The quotation is from Gorky’s play Lower Depths.

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  13. V. Rozanov, Opavshie list’ia, p. 46. 17 October is an allusion to the Tsar’s Manifesto of 17 October 1905. Ivan Pavlych was a seminary teacher known to the Rozanov family (see Opavshie list’ia, p. 53).

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  22. Kofta fata, ibid., p. 59.

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  1. Andrei Sinyavsky
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  1. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, England

    Richard Freeborn (Emeritus Professor of Russian Literature) & Jane Grayson (Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature) (Emeritus Professor of Russian Literature) &  (Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature)

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Sinyavsky, A. (1990). Rozanov. In: Freeborn, R., Grayson, J. (eds) Ideology in Russian Literature. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10825-1_6

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