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The Legend of Rothschild as the “Napoleon of Finance” in Dostoevsky’s Works

2022
The paper analyses the legend of the mighty financial dynasty of Rothschilds who exerted great influence on business life, politics, and culture in 19th-century Europe. Dostoevsky considered the motif of the power of money and Mammon’s greatness as one of the severest problems of his time, “a cruel time, a time of business and money, a calculating time,
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“Humanity” and the Legend of Healing Discipline from Napoleon to Salanter

2023
The article reconstructs the transcultural folklore tradition to consider the moral courage and discipline as a cure for epidemic diseases. The starting point of the study was the legend of Rabbi Israel Salanter abolishing the Yom Kippur fast during the 1848 cholera epidemic. As the article argues, the Salanter legend formed in 20th century
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Britain and the Black Legend: The Genesis of the Anti-Napoleonic Myth

2016
Few leaders have managed their reputations as successfully as Napoleon Bonaparte. So beguiling was his image that just thirty-three years after the disaster of Waterloo, his untested nephew, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, was elected President of the Second Republic with an overwhelming popular mandate.
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Klaus Deinet, Napoleon Bonaparte. Das Leben einer Legende, Stuttgart (Kohlhammer) 2021

2023
Klaus Deinet, Napoleon Bonaparte. Das Leben einer Legende, Stuttgart (Kohlhammer) 2021, 378 S., 25 s/w Abb. (Urban-Taschenbücher), ISBN 978-3-17-037486-7, EUR 29,00.
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