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AbstractKeenly interested in Russian literature, Paul Morand was especially marked by his reading of Dostoevsky. If Gogol, Turgenev and Tolstoy steered him towards the tradition of Balzacian realism, the author of The Writer's Diary influenced him in a way that went beyond literature. The proof lies in an essay that occupies a discrete place in Morand's work but constitutes a mother lode: L'Europe russe annoncée par Dostoïevski (1948) (Russian Europe heralded by Dostoevsky). This article purports to examine Dostoevsky's importance using the moral context in which Morand outlined his major post-War narratives such as Le flagellant de Séville (The Flogger of Seville) and Le dernier jour de l'Inquisition (The Last Day of the Inquisition).
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AbstractAs it emerged from the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Russia embarked a Foreign policy which aimed at the most complete break away from that of the Soviet Union. With a remarkable consistency Russia adopted a concept of the world and defined its interests in full compliance with the shared values and objectives of the Western powers which she wanted to join as a full partner. Her attempt to do away with the past, which is analysed here and prevailed in 1992 could not be maintained. The legacy of the Soviet and Russian past slowly resurfaced in more or less disguised ways through the debates that surrounded the definition of New Russia's interests. The recasting of Russian Foreign policy which seemed to have been completed in 1992 is now being remade in an entirely new political context. The prevailing trends are deeply disturbing for the former Soviet Republics and will raise challenging dilemmas for the Western powers.
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AbstractFor Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, the Russian novel was, from the very start, a reflection on fiction and the need for its “regeneration” in French literature. The reading of Dostoevsky offered him access to a model from which he drew inspiration, indirectly, in his first attempts to “revolutionize” the novel, especially during the writing of Jean-Luc persecuté. In later years, however, Ramuz's passionate admiration of Dostoevsky cooled, and the great Swiss novelist subsequently went on to identify with Tolstoy.
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P.N. Savitsky (1895-1968) was a Russian pioneer of the so-called "structural geography", because of its links with the Prague linguistic circle. He was the first to propose, during and after World War I, a geopolitical vision of "Eurasia", an entity which, according to its advocates, is neither Europe nor Asia, but the "place of development" of the Russian Empire and the USSR, successor of the Mongol Empire. The "Eurasia" trend finds its origin in the Russian cultural tradition, which provides it an interpretation of evolution with "internal laws" and "external influences" establishing a natural link between language, culture and Landschaft of peoples, considered as living organisms. The second origin is an original usage of the geographical method of his time. It consists of underlining the definition of "cores" to build up "structures", delimited by the overlapping of natural or human isolines.
Keywords: Eurasie, géopolitique, linguistique, structures, P.N. Savitsky, Eurasia, geopolitics, linguistics, structures, P.N. Savitsky