Uspenskij Boris, Zhivov Victor. Tsar and God and Other Essays in Russian Cultural Semiotics

Translated from Russian by Marcus C. Levitt, David Bugden, and Liv Bliss. Edited by Marcus C. Levitt. Boston [Brighton], MA: Academic Studies Press, 2012. — vi + 273 p. — (Ars Rossica). — ISBN: 978-1-936235-49-0; ISBN: 978-1-61811-124-1.Featuring a number of distinguished essays by internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij (Борис Андреевич Успенский, born in 1937) and Victor Zhivov (Виктор Маркович Живов, 1945-2013), this collection encompasses various ground-breaking works appearing in English for the first time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia’s cultural development, these essays examine the survival and reconceptualization of Russia’s past in later systems, and some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. This volume contains important examples of cultural semiotics and indispensable contributions to the history of Russian civilization.