Russian & Former Soviet Union

'The funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter' The Times She thought she was a lover of the great classics of Russian literature - until she met...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498218399Author P H BrazierFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 463g

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In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim's etiology in Suicide as well as theories of other prominent suicidologists. This book not only fills a lacuna in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322952Author Elena KravchenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839540523Author Georgina BarkerFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 789g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589636545Author Maxim GorkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Fredonia Books (NL)Publisher Fredonia Books (NL)Weight(grams) 268g

The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in post-Soviet Russia. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Chkhartishvili published over sixty...

Writers have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812278644Author Sharon LeiterImprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

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Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context discusses key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore as well as its often intensely political aspect and its preoccupation with chimerical cultural authority. These issues are dramatically displayed...

This book traces the originality of Andrey Platonov's vision of the Revolution in readings of his works. It has been common in Platonov scholarship to measure him within the parameters of a political pro et contra the October Revolution and Soviet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780923389970Author Professor Lev LoseffFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Throughout his life, Leo Tolstoy demonstrated a fascination for Americans, a feeling that was avidly reciprocated in the United States. Although Tolstoy was never able to come to America, during his lifetime he was visited at his home in Russia by a...

This translation makes available to English readers the only comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any language. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development of religion,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773237725Author Boris PasternakFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

At a time in Russia's history when poets could be (and sometimes were) killed for a poem, the autobiographies of three prominent poets, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Boris Pasternak, became a courageous defense of poetry. The Most Dangerous Art...

Major statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative process and the significance of artistic/literary creativity in his own life as well as in human life altogether, are presented here in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498090018Author Kazimierz WaliszewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 617g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494064242Author Janko LavrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621385714Author Andrei BelyFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497979406Author Charles TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497969964Author Janko LavrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 236g

Russian literature is most celebrated for its Romantic and modernist poetry and 19th-century novels. While literary traditions of varying sorts have been part of Slavic and Russian culture for over a millennium, it is only since the 18th century that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241112646Author Kazimierz WaliszewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Balanced precariously between fact and fiction, the historical novel is often viewed with suspicion. Some have attacked it as a mongrel form, a ""bastard son"" born of ""history's flagrant adultery with imagination...

From the country that has added to our vocabulary such colorful terms as ""purges,"" ""pogroms,"" and ""gulag,"" this collection investigates the conspicuous marks of violence in Russian history...

One of the most widely read and translated theorists of the former Soviet Union, Yurii Lotman was a daring and imaginative thinker. A cofounder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, he analyzed a broad range of cultural phenomena, from the opposition...

Gary Rosenshield offers a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He explores Dostoevsky's critique and exploitation of the jury trial for his own ideological agenda, both in his journalism and his fiction,...

This work explores the art and development of Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), the poet and theorist who articulated a highly influential concept of Symbolism. The German writers Goethe and Novalis also played a central part in his vision, being precursors...

Russia's provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation's cultural imagination. Popular culture has increasingly turned from the newly prosperous, multiethnic, and westernized Moscow to celebrate the hinterlands as repositories of national...

No other thinker so engaged the Russian cultural imagination of the early twentieth century as did Friedrich Nietzche. The Revolution of Moral Consciousness shows how Nietzschean thought influenced the brilliant resurgence of literary life that started...

This title illuminates the efforts of Russian satirists in exorcising the ghost of Stalin. During Stalin's lifetime the crimes of his regime were literally unspeakable. More than fifty years after his death, Russia is still coming to terms with Stalinism...

The work of Alexander A. Potebnja, a leading Ukrainian linguist of the nineteenth century, has significantly influenced modern literary criticism, particularly Russian formalism and structuralism. Potebnja's theory, known as potebnjanstvo (Potebnjanism),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875801186Author G.J. GutscheFormat HardbackPage Count 197Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 28g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299163143Author RayfieldFormat PaperbackImprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

This book demonstrates the ways in which the kitchen - the centerpiece of domesticity and consumerism - was deployed as a recurring motif in the ideological and propaganda battles of the Cold War. Beginning with the famous Nixon - Khrushchev kitchen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595183616Author Sharon LeiterFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 138mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815601081Author R. H StacyFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press