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    Gender & Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life

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  • Woe from Wit

    A Verse Comedy in Four Acts

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    Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting social critique. Its protagonist, Alexander Chatsky, is an idealistic ironist, a complex Romantic figure who would be echoed in Russian literature ... Leer más

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  • Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature

    Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others

    Series series Russian Shorts
    For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of intellectual provocation, aesthetic pleasure, emotional resonance, and personal solace. Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature explores the familiar ... Leer más

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  • Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia

    Biography for the Masses

    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures ... Leer más

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  • The Russian Medical Humanities

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  • Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture

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  • Word for Word

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  • Russian Literature

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