Between Heaven and Hell The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture
Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders. Yet, it could be said that the elusive country 'behind the Urals' is the most real and the most durable part of the Russian landscape.
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BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture
Edited By
Galya Diment and Vuri Siezkine
Palgrave Macmillan
© Galya Dirnent and Yuri Slezkine 1993
Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 1993978-0-312-06072-5 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly & Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 First published in the Uni ted States of Arneriea in 1993
ISBN 978-1-349-60553-8 ISBN 978-1-137-08914-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-08914-4 Poetry appearing on page 215, "Cerernony", frorn Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. Copyright © 1977 by Leslie Silko. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Between heaven and hell: the rnyth of Siberia in Russian eulture / edited by Galya Dirnent and Yuri Slezkine. p.ern. Ineludes index. 1. Siberia (Russia)-Civilization. I. Diment, Galya. II. Slezkine, Yuri, 1956- . DK757.3.B48 1993 957-dc20
92-23337 CIP
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Notes on Contributors
. ix
1. Introduction
Yuri Slezkine and Galya Diment.
... 1
2. Savage Christians or Unorthodox Russians? The Missionary
Dilemma in Siberia Yuri Slezkine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 15 3. Avvakum and the Genesis of Siberian Literature
Bruce T. Holl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 33
4. Exiledfrom Siberia: The Construction of Siberian Experience
by Early-Nineteenth-Century Irkutsk Writers Galya Diment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 5. Paradoxical Perceptions of Siberia: Patrician and Plebeian
Images up to the Mid-1880s James R. Gibson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
.. 67
6. "Vo Glubine Sibirskikh Rucf': Siberia and the Myth of Exile
Harriet Murav . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 95
7. The Regionalist Conception of Siberia, 1860 to 1920
Stephen Watrous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
8. Lenin and the Siberian Peasant Insurrections
N. G. O. Pereira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 9. Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma
. . . . 151
Leona Toker . . . . . . . 10. Siberia as Volia: Vasilii Shukshin's Search for Freedom
. . . . 171
John Givens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Stereotyping Interethnic Communication:
The Siberian Native in Soviet Literature Johanna Nichols . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 185
12. The Divided Self: Yuri Rytkheu and Contemporary
Chukchi Literature Adele Barker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.. 215
13. Siberia Hot and Cold: Reconstructing the Image of Siberian
Indigenous Peoples Bruce Grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 227
14. A Paradise Lost? Siberia and Its Writers, 1960 to 1990
David Gillespie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
T he editors would like to express their gratitude to the College of Arts and
Sciences at
