Russian & Former Soviet Union

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...

The Arbat neighborhood in central Moscow has long been home to many of Russia's most famous artists, writers, and scholars, as well as several of its leading cultural establishments. In an elegantly written and evocative portrait of a unique urban space...

The destructive power of obsessive love was a defining subject of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature. In Febris Erotica, Sobol argues that Russian writers were deeply preoccupied with the nature of romantic relationships and were...

The noted scholar and critic George Steiner has called the Czech-Canadian author Josef Skvorecky 'one of the major literary figures of our time,' yet to date few books on him and his writing have appeared in English. The Achievement of Josef Skvorecky is...

Andrei Bely's 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov ranked it with James Joyce's Ulysses, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826511881Author Dmitrij TschizewskijFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University Press

The nineteenth century was of particular importance to Russian literature. This significant era in Russian letters is now the subject of an incisive critical history by one of the foremost scholars of Slavic literatures in the West.Book InformationISBN...

The first generation of Russian modernists experienced a profound sense of anxiety. What made them unique was their utopian prescription for overcoming the inevitability of decline and death. They theorized their defiance of death by suggesting the...

Russia's Dangerous Texts examines the ways that writers and their works unnerved and irritated Russia's authoritarian rulers both before and after the Revolution. Kathleen F. Parthe identifies ten historically powerful beliefs about literature and...

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets. Her suicide at the age of forty-eight was the tragic culmination of a life beset by loss and hardship. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820416977Author Leonard J StantonFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 610g

Early in the twentieth century, Russia was experiencing a decadent period of cultural degeneration just as science was developing ways to identify medical conditions which supposedly reflected the health of the entire nation. Leonid Andreev, the leading...

Voices of Russian Literature presents in-depth interviews with ten of the most interesting figures writing in Russian today. They range from established authors such as Fazil Iskander and Andrei Bitov, who began their careers in the post-Stalinist Thaw,...

This book is the first to explore the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern focuses on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary activities span the 1880s to the 1990s. Unlike their East...

Olga Sedakova stands out among contemporary Russian poets for the integrity, erudition, intellectual force, and moral courage of her writing. After years of flourishing quietly in the late Soviet underground, she has increasingly brought her considered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256756Author PH D Lyudmila PartsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Fyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel- The Brothers Karamazov-in 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil immediately gained an international readership and today "remains harrowingly alive in the face of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898759730Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Believing that human actions could be controlled by a totalitarian government, Stalin and his followers subjected millions of Soviet citizens to acts of state terrorism and imprisonment in labor camps. But this was not enough. Seeking to control human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252253Author Stephen H BlackwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Russia's provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation's cultural imagination. Lyudmila Parts looks at the contested place of the provinces in twenty-first-century Russian literature and popular culture, addressing notions of nationalism,...

This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin's fictional and nonfictional writings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252406Author Andrew D KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256350Author Stuart GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837178912Author Mikhail SolovievFormat HardbackPage Count 506Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837164069Author Mark Aleksandrovich AldanovFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Early modern Russian poets, among them Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Gumilev, Boris Pasternak, Andrei Biely, Sergei Yesienin, Alexander Blok, and Valdimir Mayakovsky, are included. Brief biocritical sketches precede each selection.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259030Author Deborah a MartinsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

One hundred years after his death, Tolstoy still inspires controversy with his notoriously complex narrative strategies. This original book explores how and why Tolstoy has mystified interpreters and offers a new look at his most famous works of fiction...

This magisterial work, written by one of the world's foremost Slavic scholars, presents a survey of Russian literature from its beginning in the eleventh century to modern times. Victor Terras argues eloquently that Russian literature has reflected,...

As nationalism spread across nineteenth-century Europe, Russia's national identity remained murky: there was no clear distinction between the Russian nation and the expanding multiethnic empire that called itself 'Russian.' When Tsar Alexander II's Great...

In the early twentieth century, a group of writers banded together in Moscow to create purely original modes of expression. These avant-garde artists, known as the Futurists, distinguished themselves by mastering the art of the scandal and making...

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life-in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlor entertainments. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria Khitrova shows how poetry...

Throughout its modern history, Russia has seen a succession of highly performative social acts that play out prominently in the public sphere. This innovative volume brings the fields of performance studies and Russian studies into dialog for the first...

This Casebook is a collection of interpretations of Crime and Punishment. The selection not only reflects earlier work by major critics in the field, but also more recent studies. At the same time the choice of critical approaches has been made on the...

With its complex structure, Anna Karenina places special demands on readers who must follow multiple plotlines and discern their hidden linkages. In her well-conceived and accessible analysis, Liza Knapp offers a fresh approach to understanding how the...

This book is a study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Rosenshield does not attempt to expose the stereotype-which was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322525Author Elena KravchenkoFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...