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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Vasily Yan’s Biography

The Formative Years

The Rise of Japan, the Russo-Japanese War, and Yan’s Continuous Intellectual Journey

Yan During the Time of World War I, the Russian Revolutions, and Civil War

The Ideological Setting of Yan’s Novels: From Asianism to Russian Nationalism

The Rise of Russian Nationalism and Its Implications for Writing Historical Novels

Yan’s Work in the Early 1930s

Yan’s Book on the Creation of the Mongol Empire and Stalinist Censorship

The Attempt to Publish the Works on Mongols

Response to Yan Novels Before the Great Patriotic (Soviet-German) War, 1941–1945

The War Years

Yan’s Life During the War

Part 2: Vasily Yan’s Works

Ideological Framework of Yan’s Novels on the Mongols

Mongols as a “Collective Pilate”: Genghis Khan and the Birth of Evil

The Great Khan and the Fedorovian Dream

Batu and the Mongol Invasion of Russia

Russians as the Enemy of Mongols: Russians as “Collective Christ” Unified Around the Leader

The Monolithic Unity of the Leaders and the Masses

Russians as “Collective Christ”

Russia as Christ and Defender of Europe

The Change of the Image of the Mongols: Batu as Tough But Wise Stalin

Conclusion

Bibliography

Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe

Copyright