Leadership in the Russian literature of the 19th century
- DOI
- 10.2991/icseal-19.2019.11How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Literature, leadership, philosophy, Pushkin, Dostoevskiy
- Abstract
In the Russian classical literature of 19st century, one can find a variety of leadership patterns, expressed with psychological and philosophical depth. Absolute power, indifferent to life of a common ‘small’ man – this key problem was developed in Pushkin’s poem ‘Bronze Horseman’. Power that solve global, mainly political issues evenly, according to its own nature, prove to be a destroying force for a man occupied with his private cares. Spiritual leadership” of an old monk Zosima in Dostoevskiy’s novel ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ deprived of all external attributes of power, shows an example of resignation, humbleness, of a leadership totally devoted to a service to God. This paper is dealing with the analysis of describing leadership in the classical Russian literature of the 19th century. Leadership as manipulating, presuming deception and egoism of a leader, for whom all other people around are no more than means to achieve his own goals – is vividly represented in Dostoevskiy’s novel ‘Demons’. A special place in Russian literature takes up a leader-author – the one who makes a plot/narrative and obtains its fulfillment and for whom all other people are no more than characters in a play created by him. This kind of leadership is expressed in aesthetic terms such as ‘text’, ‘character’, ‘author’. It has as its aim getting an aesthetical delight. Such are characters Onegin and Pechorin in novels by Pushkin and Lermontov. Our results of the analysis of Russian classical literature allows us to make a manifold, vivid, and psychologically reliable picture of leadership.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Alexander Govorunov AU - Oleg Nogovitsyn PY - 2019/05 DA - 2019/05 TI - Leadership in the Russian literature of the 19th century BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social, Economic, and Academic Leadership (ICSEAL 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 57 EP - 61 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icseal-19.2019.11 DO - 10.2991/icseal-19.2019.11 ID - Govorunov2019/05 ER -