Tolstoy On War

Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin (Editors)

Description

In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays the history and military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for the soldiers of today. To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the French invasion of Russia and acknowledge the importance of Tolstoy's novel for our historical memory of its central events, Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin have assembled a distinguished group of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds-literary criticism, history, social science, and philosophy-to provide fresh readings of the novel.The essays in Tolstoy On War focus primarily on the novel's depictions of war and history, and the range of responses suggests that these remain inexhaustible topics of debate. The result is a volume that opens fruitful new avenues of understanding War and Peace while providing a range of perspectives and interpretations without parallel in the vast literature on the novel.Contributors: Alan Forrest, University of York; Andreas Herberg-Rothe, University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany; Dominic Lieven, Trinity College, Cambridge University; Jeff Love, Clemson University; Alexander M. Martin, University of Notre Dame; Rick McPeak, United States Military Academy at West Point; Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University;Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto; Elizabeth D. Samet, United States Military Academy at West Point; Dan Ungurianu, Vassar College; David A. Welch, Balsillie School of International Affairs and University of Waterloo

Sujets

• Former Soviet Union
• USSR
• Military history
• Post-Soviet states
• Eastern Europe
• Soviet Union
• Russian
• Russia
• History of Europe
• Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques
• Russie

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780801465895
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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TOLSTOY ON WAR

TOLSTOY ON WAR n Narrative Art and Historical Truth in “War and Peace”

Edited by Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin

Cornell University Press Ithaca & London

Copyright © 2012 by Cornell University

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First published 2012 by Cornell University Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks 2012

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Tolstoy on war : narrative art and historical truth in War and peace / edited by Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin.  p. cm.  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 9780801448980 (cloth : alk. paper)  ISBN 9780801478178 (pbk. : alk. paper)  1. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828–1910. Voina i mir. 2. War in literature. 3. History in literature. I. McPeak, Rickie Allen. II. Orwin, Donna Tussing, 1947–  PG3365.V65T65 2012  891.73'3—dc23 2012015299

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Contents

Acknowledgments  vii Note to the Reader  ix Introduction  1 Donna Tussing Orwin  1Tolstoy on War, Russia, and Empire 12 Dominic Lieven  2The Use of Historical Sources inWar and Peace 26 Dan Ungurianu  3Moscow in 1812: Myths and Realities 42 Alexander M. Martin  4The French at War: Representations of the Enemy in War and Peace 59 Alan Forrest  5Symposium of Quotations: Wit and Other Short Genres in War and Peace 74 Gary Saul Morson  6The Great Man inWar and Peace 85 Jeff Love  7War and Peacefrom the Military Point of View 98 Donna Tussing Orwin

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C ONTENTS

 8Tolstoy and Clausewitz: The Duel as a Microcosm of War 111 Rick McPeak  9The Awful Poetry of War: Tolstoy’s Borodino 123 Donna Tussing Orwin 10Tolstoy and Clausewitz: The Dialectics of War 140 Andreas HerbergRothe 11The Disobediences ofWar and Peace 160 Elizabeth D. Samet 12Tolstoy the International Relations Theorist 175 David A. Welch War and Peaceat West Point 190 Rick McPeak

Notes 195 Works Cited 221 List of Contributors 237 Index 239

Acknowledgments

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) contributed funds to realize this project. We thank Anton Nonin for his help gathering permissions, Dr. Edith Klein for editing the final manuscript for submission to Cornell University Press, and Arkadi Klioutchanki for his preparation of the index. Many thanks to John Ackerman, Susan Specter, and Jamie Fuller of Cornell University Press for their help. We thank Victoria McPeak and Clifford Orwin for their patience and understanding during the process of assembling this volume.

Note to the Reader

Unless otherwise stated, throughout the volume we use the English transla tion ofWar and PeaceRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky in the by Alfred A. Knopf edition (New York, 2008). We also use their translation of Tolstoy’s “A Few Words Apropos ofWar and Peace,” available in the same Knopf edition of the novel. References in Russian and all writings by Tolstoy are, unless otherwise stated, to the socalled Jubilee edition, L. N. Tolstoi,Polnoe sobranie sochinenii[PSS], 90 vols. (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1928–58). Most references to the novel in the text and notes are by volume, part, and chapter; references to the epilogue, however, are by part and chapter. Where necessary, page num bers to the Pevear/Volokhonsky edition of the novel and volume and page numbers to PSS are included as well. References to the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation of “A Few Words Apropos ofWar and Peace” are in the text, by page number only. Throughout the book, except in quotations and titles, we have used con ventional English spellings of wellknown Russian names. Where the name is not familiar, and in Russian quotations, we have followed a modified ver sion of Library of Congress transliteration to render Cyrillic into the Latin alphabet. All ellipses in quotations from the novel, unless enclosed in brackets, are in the original.