This book is the first interdisciplinary treatment of the cultural significance of the Decembrists' mythic image in Russian literature, history, film and opera in a survey of its deployment as cultural trope since the original 1825 rebellion and through the present day.

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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.

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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