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  • Greetings, Pushkin!

    Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard

    by Jonathan Brooks Platt ...
    Series Book 233 - Russian and East European Studies
    In 1937, the Soviet Union mounted a national celebration commemorating the centenary of poet Alexander Pushkin's death. Though already a beloved national literary figure, the scale and feverish pitch of the Pushkin festival was unprecedented. Greetings, Pushkin! presents the first in-depth study of this historic event and follows its manifestations in art, literature, popular culture, education, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Russian Literature

    by Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian lyric poetry ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • The Enigma of Isaac Babel

    Biography, History, Context

    Edited by Gregory Freidin ...
    A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939. Made famous by Red Cavalry, a book about the Russian civil war (he was the world's first "embedded" war reporter), another book about the Jewish gangsters of his native Odessa, and yet another about his ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Ernst Bloch

    by Vincent Geoghegan ...
    Ernst Bloch is perhaps best known for his subtle and imaginative investigation of utopias and utopianism, but his work also provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of western culture, politics and society. Yet, because he has not been one of easiest of writers to read his full contribution has not been widely acknowledged. Block developed a complex conceptual framework, and presented this ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Wonder Confronts Certainty

    Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter

    by Gary Saul Morson ...
    An Air Mail Editor’s PickA Spectator Book of the Year“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”—*Wall Street Journal *“Wise and authoritative…As the best Russian literature teaches, the emancipation of the human will from all limits and restraints is the path of individual and collective perdition. We should all be grateful to Gary Saul Morson for drawing ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps

    An Intercontexual Reading

    by Leona Toker ...
    A literary scholar examines survival narratives from Russian and German concentration camps, shedding new light on testimony in the face of evil.In this illuminating study, Leona Toker demonstrates how Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, especially how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. Toker's analysis ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

    Edited by Evgeny Dobrenko, Marina Balina ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel

    Edited by Malcolm V. Jones, Robin Feuer Miller ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

    Edited by Julie A. Buckler, Justin Weir ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian novels were initially influenced by the parallel traditions of novel-writing in Britain, France, and Germany, but the Russian novel exists as its own tradition and asserts its own identity as a literary form. To read a Russian novel often requires the fortitude to traverse many hundreds ... Read more

    $182.99 USD

  • A History of Russian Literature

    by Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, Stephanie Sandler ...
    Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. The volume proceeds chronologically in five parts, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination

    A Case of Russian Literature

    by Leonid Livak ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God. Through new readings of canonical Russian literary texts by Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD