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Vladimir Nabokov (Modern Novelists)Vladimir Nabokov (Modern Novelists)
I read this book when I had my military training. I must admit that it really gave me much fun...
Alexander Zinoviev: An Introduction to His WorkAlexander Zinoviev: An Introduction to His Work
Zinoviev's twin themes are the nature of Soviet communist society and the West's...
Literature and Politics in Eastern Europe: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990 ... World Congress for Soviet & East Studies)Literature and Politics in Eastern Europe: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990 ... World Congress for Soviet & East Studies)
Literature and politics have been closely related in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the...
Nobel Lecture (English and Russian Edition)Nobel Lecture (English and Russian Edition)
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Selected PoemsSelected Poems


The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read ThemThe Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
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I have lived a long time and read a lot of books. Some were totally trashy and probably made me...
The Double and The GamblerThe Double and The Gambler
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These two short novels by Dostoevsky, are a change of pace fot the writer. "The...
Courtyard, TheCourtyard, The
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There's not much out there to read about what life was like in the USSR--at least not much...
The Island of CrimeaThe Island of Crimea
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Aksyonov's "Island of Crimea" has an interesting premise. What if Crimea...
The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other StoriesThe Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
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This is the first of any literature by Leo Tolstoy that I have read. After finishing it, I now...


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology (20th Century Political Thinkers)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology (20th Century Political Thinkers)
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In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney presents a philosophical perspective on the political...
Bibliography of Anton Chekhov in English (Studies in Slavic Languages and Literature)Bibliography of Anton Chekhov in English (Studies in Slavic Languages and Literature)
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Provides a representative sampling of 350,000 reviews of Chekhov plays, 1994-2003 papers and...
The Apocalyptic Vision of Mikhail Bulgakov's the Master and Margarita (Studies in Slavic Language and Literature)The Apocalyptic Vision of Mikhail Bulgakov's the Master and Margarita (Studies in Slavic Language and Literature)
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This study takes as its premise that the novel, which is fascinating for both what it reveals...
Crime and Punishment (Pacemaker Abridged) (Pacemaker Classics (Prebound))Crime and Punishment (Pacemaker Abridged) (Pacemaker Classics (Prebound))
Table of Contens: Translator's Preface Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Epilogue...
Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
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Drawing together the estrangement theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Bertolt Brecht with Leo...

Milton and the Rise of Russian SatanismMilton and the Rise of Russian Satanism
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No European Devil can claim so long or so political a connection with Russian culture as...
Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn: Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural PoliticsShakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn: Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics
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Les Kurbas - director, actor, playwright, filmmaker, and translator - was the first artist to...
It's Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir (An Evergreen book)It's Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir (An Evergreen book)
This is a classic. Great book, great price. Please shop the price, as I saw an incredible...
The Master and MargaritaThe Master and Margarita
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"The Master and Margarita" is quite simply required reading for anyone who wishes to...
Alexander Ostrovsky (Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 611 : Russia)Alexander Ostrovsky (Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 611 : Russia)

Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century RussiaSoviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia
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"[The Russian and American contributors] share a very high level of expertise and an...
Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
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This anthology introduces readers to Tsarist Russia's emerging popular and commercial urban...
Russian Views of Pushkin's Eugene OneginRussian Views of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
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The World of Nabokov's Stories (Literary Modernism Series)The World of Nabokov's Stories (Literary Modernism Series)
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This piece really does deserve credit. I am a ferocious devourer of Nabokov Criticism and this...
See No Evil: Literary Cover-Ups and Discoveries of the Soviet Camp Experience (Russian Literature and Thought Series)See No Evil: Literary Cover-Ups and Discoveries of the Soviet Camp Experience (Russian Literature and Thought Series)
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Believing that human actions could be controlled by a totalitarian government, Stalin and his...

The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory (Annals of Communism)The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory (Annals of Communism)
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Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of twentieth-century Russia?s greatest poets, was viewed as a...
The Bridge and the Abyss: The Troubled Friendship of Maxim Gorky and V.I.The Bridge and the Abyss: The Troubled Friendship of Maxim Gorky and V.I.History & Literature in Contemporary Rus (St Antony's S.)History & Literature in Contemporary Rus (St Antony's S.)
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Since 1985, Russia has experienced a cultural and social revolution. This study encompasses one...
The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov (Hodder Arnold Publication)The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov (Hodder Arnold Publication)
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This anthology provides a comprehensive selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that...
The Love-Girl and The Innocent: A PlayThe Love-Girl and The Innocent: A Play
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When we get annoyed at Solzhenitsyn's lack of insight in contemporary politics (for...

Vladimir Nabokov (Modern Novelists)Vladimir Nabokov (Modern Novelists)
I read this book when I had my military training. I must admit that it really gave me much fun...
Alexander Zinoviev: An Introduction to His WorkAlexander Zinoviev: An Introduction to His Work
Zinoviev's twin themes are the nature of Soviet communist society and the West's...
Literature and Politics in Eastern Europe: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990 ... World Congress for Soviet & East Studies)Literature and Politics in Eastern Europe: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990 ... World Congress for Soviet & East Studies)
Literature and politics have been closely related in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the...
Nobel Lecture (English and Russian Edition)Nobel Lecture (English and Russian Edition)
Best Price: $153.73
Selected PoemsSelected Poems

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read ThemThe Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Best Price: $7.24
I have lived a long time and read a lot of books. Some were totally trashy and probably made me...
The Double and The GamblerThe Double and The Gambler
Best Price: $8.17
These two short novels by Dostoevsky, are a change of pace fot the writer. "The...
Courtyard, TheCourtyard, The
Best Price: $6.89
There's not much out there to read about what life was like in the USSR--at least not much...
The Island of CrimeaThe Island of Crimea
Best Price: $94.12
Aksyonov's "Island of Crimea" has an interesting premise. What if Crimea...
The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other StoriesThe Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
Best Price: $3.45
This is the first of any literature by Leo Tolstoy that I have read. After finishing it, I now...

If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred PoemsIf There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems
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Now in paperback, the widely acclaimed collection of one hundred poems of extraordinarily...
Images of Dictatorship: Portraits of Stalin in LiteratureImages of Dictatorship: Portraits of Stalin in Literature
Looks at the literary presentation of historical characters in general, and focuses on the...
Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
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"Crime and Puishment" is the story of an intellectual young man who decides to kill an...
The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
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Somewhere around page 200 of reading through this book I began to grow excited about getting to...
Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library)Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library)
Table of Contens: Translator's Preface Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Epilogue...

Third Wave: The New Russian PoetryThird Wave: The New Russian Poetry
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The experimental poems of a new generation of Russian writers
Dictionary of Russian Personal Names: With a Revised Guide to Stress and MorphologyDictionary of Russian Personal Names: With a Revised Guide to Stress and Morphology
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The Dictionary has been compiled to meet the need for a reference work on the stress and...
Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
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Published in 1987, this book was the first full-length interpretative study in English of the...
Standard English-SerboCroatian, SerboCroatian-English Dictionary: A Dictionary of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian StandardsStandard English-SerboCroatian, SerboCroatian-English Dictionary: A Dictionary of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Standards
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A "used" book in better shape than I imagined! This had been on a library shelf and...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology (20th Century Political Thinkers)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology (20th Century Political Thinkers)
Best Price: $87.60
In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Daniel Mahoney presents a philosophical perspective on the...

El Canto Y La Ceniza/ The Chant And The Stone (Spanish Edition)El Canto Y La Ceniza/ The Chant And The Stone (Spanish Edition)
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Sochineniia V Dvukh TomakhSochineniia V Dvukh TomakhCrime and PunishmentCrime and Punishment
Table of Contens: Translator's Preface Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Epilogue...
The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature (Routledge Companions)The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature (Routledge Companions)
An engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years covering the...
Reading Chekhov: A Critical JourneyReading Chekhov: A Critical Journey
To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov?s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Barron's Book Notes)Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Barron's Book Notes)
Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary...
Mystery novels Asya Turgenev. Analysis of the ciphertextMystery novels Asya Turgenev. Analysis of the ciphertext
this book is written in gobbledegook english, probably translated by google. i suppose the...
Speak, Memory (Penguin Modern Classics)Speak, Memory (Penguin Modern Classics)
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It is known that the great author worked on this project for many years, collecting photographs,...
August 1914 (Krasnoe Koleso)August 1914 (Krasnoe Koleso)
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Though the translation suffers a little, this novel of the last golden days of Imperial Russia...
StoneStone
An annotated edition in both Russian and English, it is based on the Russian edition of 1928....

Nihilist Girl (Texts & Translations)Nihilist Girl (Texts & Translations)
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If you ski downhill, be willing to walk back uphill. That's one of my two favorite Russian...
With Shakespeare's Eyes: Pushkin's Creative Appropriation of ShakespeareWith Shakespeare's Eyes: Pushkin's Creative Appropriation of Shakespeare
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I have given this book as swift a perusal as its contents warrant, and would heartily recommend...
Siberia on Fire: Stories and EssaysSiberia on Fire: Stories and Essays
Siberia on Fire brings together some of the best stories and essays by Valentin Rasputin,...
SIBERIA ON FIRE: STORIES AND ESSAYSSIBERIA ON FIRE: STORIES AND ESSAYS
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A collection of short stories and essays by one of Siberia's most famous modern writers. ...
Zamyatin's We: A Collection of Critical EssaysZamyatin's We: A Collection of Critical Essays
Zamyatin's anti-Uponian novel We is one of the great 20th-century Russian classics. Gary...

Russian Symbolist Theatre: An Anthology of Plays and Critical TextsRussian Symbolist Theatre: An Anthology of Plays and Critical TextsAgainst the Grain: Parody, Satire, and Intertextuality in Russian LiteratureAgainst the Grain: Parody, Satire, and Intertextuality in Russian Literature
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Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment": An Aesthetic InterpretationDostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment": An Aesthetic InterpretationCrime And PunishmentCrime And Punishment
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Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich...
Alexander Pushkin (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)Alexander Pushkin (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
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A collection of critical essays on the Russian writer and his works, arranged in chronological...

Autumn in America/Osen V Amerike: Stikhotvoreniia, 1982-1987 (Russian Edition)Autumn in America/Osen V Amerike: Stikhotvoreniia, 1982-1987 (Russian Edition)
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O Rus! Studia Litteraria Slavica in Honorem Hugh McleanO Rus! Studia Litteraria Slavica in Honorem Hugh McleanSlavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies)Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies)
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This remarkable work by Ronald D. LeBlanc is the first study to appraise the representation of...
Anna KareninaAnna Karenina
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Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the...
Engineers of the Soul: In the Footsteps of Stalin's WritersEngineers of the Soul: In the Footsteps of Stalin's Writers
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A brilliant fusion of travel writing and Soviet history which reads like Bruce Chatwin. ...

Poetry in ExilePoetry in Exile
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This is a study of the impact of exile on three distinct poetic voices from three distinct...
The Ethics of the Poet: Marina Tsvetaeva's Art in the Light of Conscience - Mhra Texts And Dissertations Volume 62 (Mhra Texts and Dissertations)The Ethics of the Poet: Marina Tsvetaeva's Art in the Light of Conscience - Mhra Texts And Dissertations Volume 62 (Mhra Texts and Dissertations)
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This study rehabilitates Tsvetaeva as a serious, innovative ethical thinker who developed an...
Die Ruckkehr des etetl: Russisch-judische Literatur der spaten Sowjetzeit (Schriften des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts) (German Edition)Die Ruckkehr des etetl: Russisch-judische Literatur der spaten Sowjetzeit (Schriften des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts) (German Edition)
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The study analyzes the shtetl in Russian-Jewish literature after the Holocaust as a projection...
Maxim Gorky and the Literary Quests of the 12th CenturyMaxim Gorky and the Literary Quests of the 12th CenturyIVAN the FOOL: Russian Folk Belief: A Cultural History (New Russian Writing)IVAN the FOOL: Russian Folk Belief: A Cultural History (New Russian Writing)
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It is common to say that "we are the stories we tell ourselves." This principle is the...

Political Apocalypse: Study of Dostoevsky's Grand InquisitorPolitical Apocalypse: Study of Dostoevsky's Grand InquisitorRethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)
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Novel Epics: Gogol, Dostoevsky and National Narrative (Northwestern University Press Series in Russian Literature and Theory)Novel Epics: Gogol, Dostoevsky and National Narrative (Northwestern University Press Series in Russian Literature and Theory)
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Andrey Bely: A Critical ReviewAndrey Bely: A Critical Review
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" Many critics, including Nobokov, have said that Andrey Bely wrote the great Russian novel...
Writings On Literature (Theory and  History of Literature)Writings On Literature (Theory and History of Literature)
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Resetting the Margins (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics)Resetting the Margins (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics)
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As a student of Dr. Luc Beaudoin, I found that his work reflects his passion for the romantic...
Early Soviet Postmodernism (Slavische Literaturen, Bd. 12)Early Soviet Postmodernism (Slavische Literaturen, Bd. 12)Voicing the Distant: Shakespeare and Russian Modernist PoetryVoicing the Distant: Shakespeare and Russian Modernist Poetry
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This book establishes a new reading of the Russian modernist approach toward literary tradition,...
A World Abandoned by God: Narrative and SecularismA World Abandoned by God: Narrative and Secularism
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This is a literary and philosophical study that links the idea of secularism to the form of the...
Four Contemporary Russian WritersFour Contemporary Russian Writers
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This book examines the work of Rasputin, Aitmatov, Voynovich and Vladimov - four major writers...

Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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I'm glad I returned to Ivan Bunin, whom I had not read since my early teens. Although some...
The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Friedenberg: 1910-1954 (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book)The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Friedenberg: 1910-1954 (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book)
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"A historical and literary document of the first importance . . . a dual self-portrait . ....
Dead Souls: A Poem (Oxford World's Classics)Dead Souls: A Poem (Oxford World's Classics)
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Dead Souls, the most ambitious of all Gogol's works, dates back as far as 1835 and...
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
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A compelling account of the life and labour of a freed slave, feminist, and abolitionist. A...
Devils (Oxford World's Classics)Devils (Oxford World's Classics)
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Fyodor Dostoyevesky, perhaps the greatest novelist of all-time, has a canon of mostly very long...

Anton Chekhov: A Brother's MemoirAnton Chekhov: A Brother's Memoir
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This wonderful translation (by Eugene Alper) of a hundred-year-old biography by Anton...
Stalin in Russian Satire, 1917-1991Stalin in Russian Satire, 1917-1991
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During Stalin?s lifetime the crimes of his regime were literally unspeakable. More than fifty...
Petersburg/Petersburg: Novel and City, 1900-1921Petersburg/Petersburg: Novel and City, 1900-1921
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Since its founding three hundred years ago, the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the...
Dead SoulsDead Souls
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Nikolai Gogol's Dead Soul launches the 'great Russian novel form' with a satire, so...
Discontinuous Discourses in Modern Russian LiteratureDiscontinuous Discourses in Modern Russian Literature
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This collection of eight essays reassess Russian literature, paying particular attention to...
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