Russian & Former Soviet Union

A ground-breaking interpretation of Russian culture from prehistory to the present, dealing with the feminine myth as a central cultural forceA ground-breaking interpretation of Russian culture from prehistory to the present, dealing with the feminine...

Yuri Leving's "Keys to 'The Gift'" systematises in a succinct and coherent way the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel - "The Gift (1934-1939)" - from passing notes in the private correspondence to scholarly articles, accumulated...

From the Enlightenment to the Internet age, reading practices in Russia have been shaped by factors such as artistic and cultural trends, economics, and state scrutiny. The Space of the Book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of salient...

"Shklovsky: Witness to an Era" is a blend of riotous anecdote, personal history, and literary reflection, collecting interviews with Viktor Shklovsky conducted by scholar Serena Vitale in the '70s, toward the end of the great critic's life, and in the...

In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler's army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent their finest writers into the heat of battle. After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893702793Author POTTSFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Borgo PressPublisher The Borgo PressWeight(grams) 171g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977790807Author Vladimir, F. MarkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853993435Author Richard PeaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

In Hunting Nature, Thomas P. Hodge explores Ivan Turgenev's relationship to nature through his conception, description, and practice of hunting-the most unquenchable passion of his life. Informed by an ecocritical perspective, Hodge takes an approach...

The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever...

'Bakhtin and his Others' aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin's ideas on...

Goncharov's novels have been popular in Russia since their publication, and Oblomov, the central character of his most famous novel, has become the prototype of a fat and lazy man. Milton Ehre offers new interpretations of the complex personality of...

This book, first published in 1977, begins with a close look at the lives of nineteenth century Russian writers, and at the problems of their profession. It then examines their environment in its broader aspects, the Russian empire being considered from...

A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853982159Author Luigi StendardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint George RonaldPublisher George Ronald PublisherWeight(grams) 133gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

The confrontation between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army on the Eastern Front of World War II was defined by incalculable suffering, destruction, casualties, and heroism. While many historians have chronicled the epic nature of that arena of war, it has...

A manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It depicts a society that prized religious orthodoxy, reliance on tradition, and absolute...

Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Lukacs-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from its European context, the authors reveal that it developed...

Marking the bicentenary of Dostoevsky's birth, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity takes the writer's art - specifically the tension between experience and formal representation - as its central theme. While many critical approaches to Dostoevsky's...

The Russian avant-garde was a composite of antagonistic groups who wished to overthrow the basic aesthetics of classical realism. Modernism was the totality of these numerous aesthetic theories, which achieved a measure of coherence immediately after the...

Half-Light & Other Poems brings together the most important and enduring poems by this neglected writer, one of Russia's great 19th century poets. In a new translation by Peter France, the philosophical, social and literary struggles of Russia under Tsar...

A selection of short stories and parables dealing with life in Communist Russia by 18 noted Russian writers.Book InformationISBN 9780802130150Author Alan GinsburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 305Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782671268Author Pavel BasinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Glagoslav Publications LtdPublisher Glagoslav Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

"On the whole, the volume reads like a cohesive book ...and maintains a high standard of scholarship throughout. Investigators of Russian literary demonism in the future will surely want to consult this excellent work." * The Russian Review...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782671275Author Pavel BasinskyFormat HardbackPage Count 530Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams) 943g

This superb introduction to the work of the famous Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1886-1966) begins with an account of her life in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg and Stalinist Russia, and focuses principally on her poetry. Incorporating all recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410204585Author Alexander HerzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 632Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of more recent developments in literary theory, Peter Steiner here...

Staging the Absolute argues that an array of practices and beliefs came together to define an essential aspect of Russian and Soviet culture in the twentieth century: the persistent desire to interrupt - or disrupt - history. Drawing on sources that...

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she set...

This monograph aims to offer an in-depth critical analysis of Lermontov's novel, in the light of the latest criticism on the work. A review of the critical reception of the novel from publication up to the present day is offered in the introduction, and...

Studies of eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language, culture, or nationality. In this highly original book, Glaser reveals the rich cultural exchange among writers working in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish in the...

Most critics overlook the literary significance of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work, focusing instead on biographical, political, and moral interpretations. This examination of Solzhenitsyn's major novels-One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, The First...

A century ago the Symbolists in Moscow and St. Petersburg dreamed of a fundamental transformation of life in Russia. From their reading of signs in the heavens, these poets, philosophers, and mystics sensed that tsardom was on the threshold of an...

In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that...

Silver Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year, HistoryFrom September 1941 until January 1944, Leningrad suffered under one of the worst sieges in the history of warfare. At least one million civilians died, many during the terribly cold first winter...

This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of "prosaics," which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a "prosaics of process"...

One of the most discussed and elusive female characters in the Russian literary tradition, Alexandr Pushkin's Tatiana Larina is the progenitor of an impressive list of heroines, ranging from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to Pasternak's Lara Guishar in ""Doctor...

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical...

In December 1825, a group of liberal aristocrats, officers, and intelligentsia mounted a coup against the tsarist government of Russia. Inspired partially by the democratic revolutions in the United States and France, the Decembrist movement was...