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The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture » (New Edition)

Authors: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
ISBN-13: 9780801483318, ISBN-10: 080148331X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date Published: June 1997
Edition: New Edition

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Magic and Divination: Old Russian Sources	35
2	Three Instances of the Peasant Occult in Russian Literature: Intelligentsia Encounters Narod	59
3	Russian Religious Thought and the Jewish Kabbala	75
4	"The Shade of Lucifer's Dark Wing": Satanism in Silver Age Russia	99
5	Fashionable Occultism: Spiritualism, Theosophy, Freemasonry, and Hermeticism in Fin-de-Siecle Russia	135
6	Anthroposophy in Russia	153
7	Fedorov's Transformations of the Occult	171
8	Russian Cosmism in the 1920s and Today	185
9	Technology as Esoteric Cosmology in Early Soviet Literature	203
10	The Magic of Words: Symbolism, Futurism, Socialist Realism	225
11	An Occult Source of Socialist Realism: Gorky and Theories of Thought Transference	247
12	Sergei Eisenstein's Gnostic Circle	273
13	The Occult in the Prose of Vsevolod Ivanov	299
14	Daniil Andreev and the Mysticism of Femininity	325
15	The Occult in Russia Today	357
16	Political Implications of the Early Twentieth-Century Occult Revival	379
	Appendix: Source Materials	419
	Russian Occult Journalism of the Early Twentieth Century and Emigration	419
	Russian Occult Journals and Newspapers	423
	Literature on Russian Occult Journals	443
	Russian Occult Monographs: Titles Listed in Antoshevsky's Bibliografiia okkul'tizma Located in the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) Database	446
	About the Contributors	451
	Index	455