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This book explores the contradictory images of Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584) in Russian historical memory since 1991 because of his controversial use of mass terror as a political instrument.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Publications1. Anything Goes: Post-1991 Historiography of Ivan the Terrible in Russia
2. Who Was Not Ivan the Terrible? Who Ivan the Terrible Was Not
3. Would You Believe in
Saint Ivan? Reforming the Image of Tsar Ivan the Terrible
4. Dueling Ivans, Dueling Stalins
5. A Proposal to Revive the Oprichnina
6. Ivan the Terrible in Russian History Surveys and Textbooks since 1991
7. Two Imperial Interpretations of Ivan the Terrible
8. Ivan the Terrible from the Point of View of Tatar History
9. A Reflection of the Current State of Ivan the Terrible Studies
10. Generalissimo Ivan the Terrible
Part Two: Films11. Eisenstein¿s Ivan, Neuberger¿s Ivan, Ivan¿s Ivan
12. The Atheist Director and the Orthodox Tsar: Sergei Eisenstein¿s
Ivan the Terrible
13. Ivan the Terrible Returns to the Silver Screen: Pavel Lungin¿s Film
Tsar¿
Conclusion
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Charles J. Halperin is an independent scholar residing in Bloomington, Indiana. He is the author of Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History (1985), The Tatar Yoke: The Image of the Mongols in Medieval Russia (1986, 2009); Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish (2019), Ivan IV and Muscovy (2020), and over 100 articles.
Summary
Comparisons of Ivan the Terrible to Stalin have exacerbated the politicization of his image. Russians have never agreed on his role in Russian history, but his reign is too important to ignore. This book explores Russia's contradictory historical memory of Ivan in scholarly, pedagogical and political publications.
