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SUMMARY:The Absolute Faker: The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Con 
 Man in the Land of the Capitalists - Prof Ilya Vinitsky
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DESCRIPTION:This lecture deals with a reconstruction and interpretation of
  the extraordinary Russian and American career of *Ivan Ivanovitch Narodny
 * (1870-1953). A Russian-Estonian “revolutionist\,” arms dealer\, foun
 der of the “United States of Russia\,” tabloid journalist\, modernist 
 writer\, art critic and mystic\, Narodny was aptly called by an FBI agent 
 “the worst fraud that ever came out of Russia.” In fact\, he was the c
 reator of numerous heretofore unidentified literary frauds and mystificati
 ons\, including a mythical Russian system of espionage in America\, Tolsto
 y’s prophecy of WWI\, a Trotskist “animal farm” in Siberia\, and the
  legend of Shambhala (source of the celebrated novel and film “Lost Hori
 zon”)\, which spread all over the world via the Hearst newspaper agency 
 that employed him. Designed as a quintessentially American and\, in partic
 ular\, New York story\, it also aims to develop a new interdisciplinary me
 thodology for analyzing the phenomenon exemplified by Narodny and\, eventu
 ally\, to lay the foundation for a new historical (sub)discipline dealing 
 with the formation and cultural values of liars\, forgers\, and mystifiers
 .
LOCATION:Latimer Room\, Clare College
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