Russian & Former Soviet Union

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...

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410201683Author Leo TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781883860Author Margarita VaysmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254684Author Ani KokoboboFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

'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) 381g

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...