Spanish Peru, 1532-60

Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution – figures such as Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Pushkin, Leo illegible], and Mikhail illegible] – Epic Revisionism tells the fascinating story of these individuals’ return to canonical status during the darkest days of the Stalin era. An inherently interdisciplinary project, Epic Revisionism features pieces on literary and cultural history, film, opera, and theater. It pairs scholarly essays with selections from Stalin-era primary sources – newspaper articles, unpublished archival documents, short stories – to provide students and specialists with the richest possible understanding of this understudied phenomenon in modern Russian history.

Author Biography

James Lockhart is Professor Emeritus of History at UCLA. He is the author of The Nahuas After the Conquest (Stanford University Press, 1992) and much else in Nahuatl studies. Susan Schroeder is France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University. She is the author of Chimalpahin and the Kingdoms of Chalco (1991), and has edited other works of Chimalpahin. Doris Namala is Lecturer at Loyola Marymount University and author of the dissertation ““Chimalpahin in His Time,”“ now being developed into a book.