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... a masterful analysis regarding the role played by literati in tsarist, Soviet, and post-communist Russia. One cannot but be amazed by the timespan in this book, which even analyzes tests currently being used in the school system....this exceptionaly well researched, thoroughly documented, and gracefully written masterpiece. -Modern Age Imperial Knowledge pursues several ends, all important and sharply defined. -World Literature Today [M]arks a considerable advance in our knowledge....The detailed and numerous annotations, the bibliography and the index will without doubt generate further study of the many issues raised in this fine book. -Slavic and East European Journal �M�arks a considerable advance in our knowledge....The detailed and numerous annotations, the bibliography and the index will without doubt generate further study of the many issues raised in this fine book. -Slavic and East European Journal ?Imperial Knowledge pursues several ends, all important and sharply defined.?-World Literature Today ?[M]arks a considerable advance in our knowledge....The detailed and numerous annotations, the bibliography and the index will without doubt generate further study of the many issues raised in this fine book.?-Slavic and East European Journal ?...a masterful analysis regarding the role played by literati in tsarist, Soviet, and post-communist Russia. One cannot but be amazed by the timespan in this book, which even analyzes tests currently being used in the school system....this exceptionaly well researched, thoroughly documented, and gracefully written masterpiece.?-Modern Age .,. a masterful analysis regarding the role played by literati in tsarist, Soviet, and post-communist Russia. One cannot but be amazed by the timespan in this book, which even analyzes tests currently being used in the school system....this exceptionaly well researched, thoroughly documented, and gracefully written masterpiece. -Modern Age An erudite and magisterial study. -Richard F. Staar Senior Fellow The Hoover Institution Stanford University A pioneering book--vigorous, provocative, broadly informed and crisply written. Not to be ignored by anyone concerned with Russian culture. -Donald Fanger Harry Levin Research Professor of Literature Harvard University In this thought-provoking, well-written, and fairminded book, Ewa Thompson addresses the complicity of Russian literature and even literary scholarship in furthering the goals of Russian colonialism and imperialism. A fresh perspective on the culture of Russian literature from the time of Pushkin to the post-Soviet period, Imperial Knowledge is a timely challenge to the usual ways Russian literature is read and taught. -Harold B. Segel Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature Columbia University

In this thought-provoking, well-written, and fairminded book, Ewa Thompson addresses the complicity of Russian literature and even literary scholarship in furthering the goals of Russian colonialism and imperialism. A fresh perspective on the culture of Russian literature from the time of Pushkin to the post-Soviet period, Imperial Knowledge is a timely challenge to the usual ways Russian literature is read and taught. -Harold B. Segel Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature Columbia University

... a masterful analysis regarding the role played by literati in tsarist, Soviet, and post-communist Russia. One cannot but be amazed by the timespan in this book, which even analyzes tests currently being used in the school system....this exceptionaly well researched, thoroughly documented, and gracefully written masterpiece. -Modern Age Imperial Knowledge pursues several ends, all important and sharply defined. -World Literature Today [M]arks a considerable advance in our knowledge....The detailed and numerous annotations, the bibliography and the index will without doubt generate further study of the many issues raised in this fine book. -Slavic and East European Journal M arks a considerable advance in our knowledge....The detailed and numerous annotations, the bibliography and the index will without doubt generate further study of the many issues raised in this fine book. -Slavic and East European Journal ?...a masterful analysis regarding the role played by literati in tsarist, Soviet, and post-communist Russia. One cannot but be amazed by the timespan in this book, which even analyzes tests currently being used in the school system....this exceptionaly well researched, thoroughly documented, and gracefully written masterpiece.?-Modern Age ?Imperial Knowledge pursues several ends, all important and sharply defined.?-World Literature Today ?[M]arks a considerable advance in our knowledge....The detailed and numerous annotations, the bibliography and the index will without doubt generate further study of the many issues raised in this fine book.?-Slavic and East European Journal .,. a masterful analysis regarding the role played by literati in tsarist, Soviet, and post-communist Russia. One cannot but be amazed by the timespan in this book, which even analyzes tests currently being used in the school system....this exceptionaly well researched, thoroughly documented, and gracefully written masterpiece. -Modern Age A pioneering book--vigorous, provocative, broadly informed and crisply written. Not to be ignored by anyone concerned with Russian culture. -Donald Fanger Harry Levin Research Professor of Literature Harvard University An erudite and magisterial study. -Richard F. Staar Senior Fellow The Hoover Institution Stanford University In this thought-provoking, well-written, and fairminded book, Ewa Thompson addresses the complicity of Russian literature and even literary scholarship in furthering the goals of Russian colonialism and imperialism. A fresh perspective on the culture of Russian literature from the time of Pushkin to the post-Soviet period, Imperial Knowledge is a timely challenge to the usual ways Russian literature is read and taught. -Harold B. Segel Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature Columbia University

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EWA M. THOMPSON is Professor of Slavic Studies at Rice University. She is the author of several books, and her articles have appeared in such journals as Modern Age and Slavic Review.

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