The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture

LUDMILLA A. TRIGOS is an Independent Scholar who has taught at Columbia University, Barnard College, Drew University and New York University, USA, and is co-editor of Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness.

Introduction The Decembrist Myth in the Nineteenth Century Literariness and Self-Fashioning in the Decembrists' Memoirs The Image in Flux in the Early Twentieth-Century The Battle over Representation during the Centennial Centennial Representations in Fiction and Film Re-Writing Russian History: Stalin Era Representations The Decembrists and Dissidence: Myth and Anti-Myth from the 1960s-1980s The Decembrists' De-Sacralization in the Glasnost and Post-Soviet Eras Epilogue