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Highlights Poland's central role in the formation of a modern Russian identity.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Russian Identity in Its Encounter with PolandDavid L. Ransel and Bożena Shallcross
1. The Irreparable Church Schism: Russian Orthodox Identity and Its Historical Encounter with CatholicismBarbara Skinner
2. Imitation of Life: A Russian Guest in the Polish Regimental FamilyBeth Holmgren
3. Repositioning Pushkin and the Poems of the Polish UprisingMegan Dixon
4. Appropriating Poland: Glinka, Polish Dance, and Russian National IdentityHalina Goldberg
5. The Slavophile Thinkers and the Polish Question in 1863Andrzej Walicki
6. Dostoevsky and His Polish Fellow Prisoners from the House of the DeadNina Perlina
7. Vladimir Solov'ëv's Views on the Polish Question: Poland and Reunion of the Eastern and Western ChurchesManon de Courten
8. The Geopolitical Dimension of Russian-Polish Confrontation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesLeonid Gorizontov
9. Tsar Vasilii Shuiskii, the Staszic Palace, and Nineteenth-Century Russian Politics in WarsawRobert L. Przygrodzki
10. At Home with Pani Eliza: Isaac Babel and His Polish EncountersJudith Deutsch Kornblatt
11. Soviet Polonophobia and the Formulation of Nationalities Policy in the Ukrainian SSR, 1927-1934 Matthew D. Pauly
12. Under the Influence? Joseph Brodsky and PolandIrena Grudziska Gross
Selected Readings
Contributors
Index

About the Author

David L. Ransel is Robert F. Byrnes Professor of History and Director of the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University.
Bożena Shallcross is Associate Professor of Polish Literature at the University of Chicago.