Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace
Autor Alexander Mikaberidzeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 oct 2022
Folosind ca sursă principală baze de date extinse și arhive rusești adesea inaccesibile cercetării occidentale, Kutuzov reprezintă o biografie monumentală care redă dimensiunea umană a unei figuri transformate în legendă. Alexander Mikaberidze reușește să treacă dincolo de portretul imortalizat de Tolstoi în „Război și pace” sau de imaginea idealizată de propaganda stalinistă, oferindu-ne un tablou complex al feldmareșalului Mihail Ilarionovici Golenicev-Kutuzov. Găsim în această carte nu doar relatarea victoriilor militare, ci și portretul unui supraviețuitor al intrigilor de curte, un imperialist convins, dar totodată un realist care privea cu scepticism incompetența conducerii de la Austerlitz.
Această ediție publicată de Oxford University Press extinde cadrul propus de Russia Against Napoleon de Dominic Lieven cu date noi extrase din corespondența personală și jurnalele de campanie ale epocii. În timp ce Dominic Lieven se concentrează pe efortul de război al întregului imperiu, Alexander Mikaberidze focalizează lentila pe psihologia și deciziile strategice ale lui Kutuzov. Cartea se integrează perfect în opera anterioară a autorului, completând analizele tactice din The Battle of Borodino și viziunea globală din The Napoleonic Wars. Stilul narativ este precis, evitând superlativele inutile, dar menținând un ritm alert prin alternarea detaliilor biografice cu analizele de strategie militară. Este o lucrare esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care o retragere strategică a putut deveni piatra de temelie a identității naționale ruse.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0197546730
Pagini: 816
Dimensiuni: 237 x 163 x 55 mm
Greutate: 1.27 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Despre autor
Alexander Mikaberidze este profesor de istorie la Mississippi State University și un expert recunoscut la nivel internațional în epoca napoleoniană. Deține un doctorat la Florida State University și a colaborat strâns cu Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution. În calitate de președinte al Societății Napoleonice din Georgia, Mikaberidze a publicat numeroase lucrări de referință, inclusiv The Napoleonic Wars, laureată a premiului Gilder Lehrman pentru istorie militară. Expertiza sa juridică și istorică îi permite o analiză profundă a structurilor de putere din Imperiul Rus.
Descriere
A full-life portrait of the man Tolstoy immortalized, Stalin lionized, and Russian history has manipulated and mythologized beyond recognition.Every Russian knows him purely by his patronym. He was the general who triumphed over Napoleons Grande Armée during the Patriotic War of 1812, not merely restoring national pride but securing national identity. Many Russians consider Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov the greatest figure of the 19th century, ahead of Pushkin, Tchaikovsky, even Tolstoy himself. Immediately after his death in 1813, Kutuzovs remains were hurried into the pantheon of heroes. Statues of himrose up across the Russian empire and later the Soviet Union. Over the course of decades and centuries he hardened into legend.As award-winning author Alexander Mikaberidze shows in this fascinating, often startling, and wholly humanizing new biography, Kutuzovs story is far more compelling and complex than the myths that have encased him. An unabashed imperialist who rose in the ranks through his victories over the Turks and the Poles, Kutuzov was also a realist and a skeptic about military power. When the Russians and their allies were routed by the French at Austerlitz he was openly appalled by the incompetence ofleadership and the sheer waste of life. Over his long careermarked equally by victory and defeat, embrace and ostracism—he grew to despise those whose concept of war had devolved to mindless attack.Here, at last, is Kutuzov as he really was—a master and survivor of intrigue, moving in and out of royal favor, committed to the welfare of those under his command, and an innovative strategist. When, reluctantly and at the 11th hour, Czar Alexander I called upon him to lead the fight against Napoleons invading army, Kutuzov accomplished what needed to be done not by a heroic charge but by a strategic retreat. Across the generations, portraits of Kutuzov have ranged from hagiography todismissal, with Tolstoys portrait of him in War and Peace perhaps the most indelible of all. This immersive biography returns a touchstone figure in Russian history to human scale.
Recenzii
Mikaberidze makes his subject come wonderfully alive.
Accessible and impressively researched, this sweeping biography unearths the real man behind a national symbol. Readers of European military history will be enthralled.
Mikhail Kutuzov has had more than his share of hagiographers and debunkers. Alexander Mikaberidze has produced a detailed, fascinating, and well-written biography of one of Russia's most famous generals that draws on an immense range of sources, conveys a sense both of the general and the man, and provides fair and considered judgments on the most controversial moments in his career.
Drawing on a vast array of sources and written in a lively, engaging style, Alexander Mikaberidze's biography of Kutuzov conveys the drama of the great field marshal's life and career, offering a sweeping panorama of society, politics, culture, foreign relations, and war in tsarist Russia in the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon. An impressive accomplishment.
Lazy, gluttonous, cunning, brave, pious, courtly, and coarse, Kutuzov enraged his detractors, enthralled his admirers, and strangled his enemies in silky webs of bureaucratic intrigue. He destroyed Napoleon's Grand Army in Russia, was intimately portrayed by Tolstoy, and later lionized by Stalin and Putin. He has needed a discerning biography since his death in 1813. Alexander Mikaberidze has given us one, at last. Kutuzov conveys the sweep, color, and controversy of the field marshal's epic life.
An authoritative biography of General Kutuzov strips away the layers of propaganda that have encrusted its subject since 1812.
A biography necessarily focuses on individuals, but Mikaberidze's book raises questions an individual perspective cannot answer.
Notă biografică
Alexander Mikaberidze is Professor of History and Ruth Herrin Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University-Shreveport. He holds a degree in international law from Tbilisi State University and a Ph.D. in history from Florida State University. An expert on the Napoleonic Wars, Dr. Mikaberidze has written and edited over two dozen books, including multi-volume series on the Russian eyewitness accounts of the Napoleonic Wars and a trilogy on thedecisive moments of the Russian Campaign of 1812: Napoleon versus Kutuzov: The Battle of Borodino (2007), Napoleon's Trial by Fire: The Burning of Moscow (2014) and Napoleon's Great Escape: The Battle on the Berezina (2010). His latest book, on the global impact of the Napoleonic Wars, is The Napoleonic Wars:A Global History (2020). He is currently one of the editors of the multi-volume Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars.