Russian & Former Soviet Union

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604976342Author Colm McKeoghFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781882276Author Arnold McMillinFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357930864Author Karel ČapekPage Count 84Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

The book shows Chekhov in a new light, as a writer with a synthetic ethical worldview on which his poetics are based. The book's key finding is that the temporal experience of modernity lies at the centre of Chekhov's work. This conclusion is reached by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909254114Author Anthony Professor CrossFormat HardbackImprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 662g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039112173Author Agata KrzychylkiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357930529Author Graf Leo TolstoyPage Count 50Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

The study provides a close analysis of literary works by women in late-18th- and early-19th-century Russia, with a focus on Anna Naumova, Mariia Pospelova, and Mariia Bolotnikova. Political, social and feminist theories are applied to examine...

During the late Soviet period, the art collective known as the Mitki emerged in Leningrad. Producing satirical poetry and prose, pop music, cinema, and conceptual performance art, this group fashioned a playful, emphatically countercultural identity with...

A highly significant movement within the Silver Age, harlequinade did not surface in Russian high culture until the turn of the twentieth century, when it suddenly began to attract the close attention of symbolist authors. In the present work, an attempt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648373626Author Morris BermanFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Echo Point Books & Media, LLCPublisher Echo Point Books & Media, LLCWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644695142Author Cynthia L HavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Academic Studies PressPublisher Academic Studies PressWeight(grams) 152g

Nikolaj Gumilev occupies a paradoxical place within the history of Russian modernism. Although he is well known as the founder of Acmeism and is regarded as an important poet and critic, much of his work is difficult to reconcile with prevailing concepts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618952028Author Leonid AndreyevFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 195g

This book uses some of Doris Lessing’s fictional texts as a springboard for making new contributions to the study of ageing, and more specifically, on the ageing of women. Lessing’s fiction invites a critical political, cultural and ethical reflection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788742085Author Stacie AllanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Peter Lang International Academic PublishersPublisher Peter Lang International Academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839542749Author Simon DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Totalitarian Speech brings together a range of texts on totalitarian manipulations of language. The author analyzes various phenomena, from the hateful rhetoric of Nazi Germany to the obfuscating newspeak of communist Poland, finding certain common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771126700Author Lonny HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint Wilfrid Laurier University PressPublisher Wilfrid Laurier University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581121117Author Jessica M NataleFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Dissertation.comPublisher Dissertation.comWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906165550Author Dominic DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter Lang LtdWeight(grams) 520g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631545300Author Kerstin EksellFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410202895Author Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410207548Author Petr Alekseevich KropotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

This anthology presents the writings of Lydia Pasternak Slater (1902-1989), sister of Boris Pasternak. Lydia Pasternak Slater lived successively in Russia, Germany and England, and wrote in all three languages. Her poetry is largely lyrical, occasionally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781887820Author Catriona KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Awarded the Jane Grayson Prize by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives addresses the many knotted issues in the work of Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita's moral stance, Pnin's relationship with memory, Pale...

Awarded the Jane Grayson Prize by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives addresses the many knotted issues in the work of Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita's moral stance, Pnin's relationship with memory, Pale...

"Inklings" nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung...

Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical oddity, apparently so different from everything before and after. Yet the masterpieces of literature and cinema from this largely forgotten...

It is commonly held between scholars that in the Stalin years no specific mass literature existed in the Soviet Union; what do we do, then, with Lev Ovalov's Major Pronin or with Lev Sheinin's stories, which began to appear since the mid-Thirties? What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787079595Author Eamon MaherFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter Lang LtdWeight(grams) 458g

Explores and illuminates the impact of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin on our understanding of literary modernism. This volume explores the subject of modernism as seen through the lens of Bakhtinian criticism and in doing so offers a rounded and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887191850Author Roman KatsmanFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Academic Studies PressPublisher Academic Studies Press

In this volume, scholars analyze contemporary Black British and American women’s fiction that tackles issues of violence and its representations. The book gives readers a wide perspective about recent research on the history of Black women who have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410208156Author Ethel Colburn MayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

How postcolonial are the literatures of postcommunist countries such as Poland, Russia, and Ukraine? Are they postcolonial on the level of sociopolitical conditions, postcolonial modes of representation, or of a (post-)colonial mind? The contributors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357932455Author Henryk SienkiewiczPage Count 36Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

This is the first book-length study of the outstanding generation of Leningrad poets whose careers began during the Khrushchev Thaw. The text brings together memoirs, interviews, and archival research to construct an account of the world of poetry in...

Cultural Capitalism explores Russian literature's eager embrace of capitalism in the post-Soviet era. When the Soviet Union fell, books were suddenly bought and sold as commodities. Russia's first bestseller lists brought attention and prestige. Even...