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Dostoevsky and the Idea of Russianness

This book examines Dostoevskys interest in, and engagement with, Slavophi-lism a Russian mid-nineteenth century movement of conservative nationalist thought. It explores Dostoevskys views, as expressed in both his non-fiction and fiction, on the religious, spiritual and moral ideas which he considered to be innately Russian. It concludes that Dostoevsky is an important successor to the Slavophiles, in that he developed their ideas in a more coherent fashion, broadening their moral and spiritual concerns into a more universal message about the true worth of Russia and her people.

Sarah Hudspithis a lecturer at the University of Leeds. Her main area of specialism is nineteenth-century Russian literature, especially Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

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Dostoevsky and the Idea of Russianness

A new perspective on unity and brotherhood

Sarah Hudspith

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Acknowledgements

This study is based largely on my thesis for the Ph.D. awarded to me by the University of Sheffield in 2000. I owe much to those who have advised and supported me in many different ways. First and foremost, I would like to thank my Ph.D. supervisor, Professor William Leatherbarrow, for being a source of inspiration, guidance, encouragement, indefatigable good humour, and praise. Next I must mention Professor Malcolm Jones, who has given me a great deal of sound advice and positive feedback. My thanks are also due to Professor Derek Offord for his advice on changes to the original thesis for publication. I must thank Natasha Bogoslavskaya for her help in checking my translations from the Russian. Finally, I am grateful to Peter Sowden at Taylor & Francis for his patience and support.

This study incorporates material that has appeared previously in a different form, in my articles Slavophilism and the opposition of Russia and the West as themes in Dostoevskys Diary of a Writer, Rossia i Zapad: Dialog Kultur, no. 5, Moscow, 1998, and Dostoevsky and the Slavophile aesthetic, Dostoevsky Studies, 4, 2000. I am grateful to the publishers for their permission to reproduce the material therein. I would also like to thank other publishers who have granted their permission for the translation into English of extracts from certain works cited.

Lastly, love and thanks to my family, and especially Stuart, who have helped me so much.

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Note on editions, transliteration and translation

All references to Dostoevsky are from the thirty-volume Academy of Sciences edition of his complete works (F. M. Dostoevskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v 30 tomakh, Leningrad: Nauka, 197290), and are given in parentheses in the text, citing volume and page number.

In the bibliographic references of this study, Russian is transcribed from the Cyrillic according to the Library of Congress transliteration system without diacritics. In the main body of the text, however, I have chosen to adopt a less formal system for proper names, so that for example I use Dostoevsky rather than Dostoevskii. Also, I have allowed some Anglicization of first names, such as Alexander for Aleksandr. In citations from critical works that use an alternative system, that system is kept.

Readers unfamiliar with Cyrillic alphabet may note the use of the prime () in certain proper names and Russian terms. This represents the Cyrillic soft sign, which softens the pronunciation of the preceding consonant.

Titles of works by Dostoevsky, Khomiakov and Kireevsky are translated in the main body of the text, but transliterated in the bibliography and notes. Titles of Russian journals, with the exception of Dostoevskys Diary of a Writer, are transliterated rather than translated.

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