Custine

[Olga Meerson]

In Sokurov's 'Russian Arc', Custine is the main protagonist: it is through his eyes that we get to see Sokurov's version of post-Petrine Russian history. Of course, it is a film, but by now, part of, if not pop then self-popularizing, Russian culture.
o.m.

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From: "Katz, Michael" <mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU>
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2008 1:18 pm
Subject: [SEELANGS] Custine

> Dear colleagues:
> 
> I am interested in locating any references to Custine's account of 
> 19th c.
> Russia in the works of analysts writing NOW about Russia's rocky 
> path to
> democracy (if that's what it is). Any thoughts?
> 
> Michael Katz
> Middlebury College
> mkatz at middlebury.edu
> 
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