Canadian Journal of History, December 1st, 2004
The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia, by Maureen Perrie. Studies in Russian and Eastern European History. New York, Palgrave, 2001. xv, 255 pp. $75.00 US (cloth).
Remembered by the Russians for his cruelty and the punitive expeditions of his secret police, oprichniki, Ivan IV (1530-84) went down in history with the epithet "Groznyi," translated as "Terrible." According to a popular legend, he was born during a thunderstorm or "groza" (in Russian the word also means "terror"). Maureen Perrie, who has published a book on the image of Tsar Ivan in Russian folklore, examines his phe...
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