The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature

270 Glossary

dvoeverie dual-faith; the blend of pagan and Christian ethoi in Russian culture,

p. 29. dyavol devil (more imposing and terrifying than a chort), p. 35.

feuilleton lit. leaf, piece of paper (from Fr.); short, journalistic prose sketch, p. 156.

Gallomania a frenzy or mania for all things French, ridiculed in eighteenth-century comedies (especially Denis Fonvizin’s), p. 82.

Gallophilia the love of all things French (in contrast to Gallomania), p. 87.

glasnost' lit. “public voicedness”; first used in reference to lessened censorship during the Great Reforms (1861-64); entered English usage beginning in the mid-1980s, in reference to Gorbachev’s liberalization policies in the Soviet Union, p. 77.

grekh sin, p. 41.

groznyi terrible, awesome (in the sense of frightening to one’s enemies); refers to “Ivan the Terrible,” p. 52.

ideinost' idea-mindedness (lit. “idea-ness”); one of the tenets of socialist realism, that the “idea” of a work of art should embody the current high-priority party slogan, p. 200.

intelligentsia a mixed class based on education and ideological commitment rather than birth or government rank, p. 7.

Kalmyk Asiatic, Siberian ethnic group, p. 121.

Khanzhakina “Mrs. Hypocrite,” speaking name from Catherine the Great’s comedy O! The Times! (1769), p. 85.

kitezhanka a woman from the legendary city of Kitezh, p. 30.

klassovost' class-mindedness; a tenet of socialist realism, acknowledging the social-class origin of art and obliging it to further the struggle of the proletariat, p. 200.

kn´ızhnik scribe; bibliophile; bookseller (pl. kn´ızhniki), p. 23.

kolkhoz collective farm, p. 216.

Koshchnoe tsarstvo Kingdom of the dead, p. 68.

kost' bone, p. 68.

Kotlovan Foundation Pit. Title of Platonov’s 1930 novel, p. 212.

kulak lit. “fist”; well-to-do peasants who resisted collectivization after 1932, or anyone who profited under the quasi-capitalistic New Economic Plan, p. 51.

kul'turnost' culturedness, p. 193.

lesenka lit. “short flight of stairs”; refers here to a verse form invented by Vlad´ımir

Mayakovsky, p. 8. l'gat' to tell a lie, p. 49. lich´ına mask; outward appearance that conceals one’s true person, p. 30.