Andrei Sinyavsky wrote In Gogol’s Shadow while serving time in a Soviet labor camp. Opening with Gogol’s funeral, this u......more
Andrei Sinyavsky wrote In Gogol s Shadow while serving time in a Soviet labor camp. Opening with Gogol s funeral, this u......more
Modernism cannot be reduced to a rejection of established norms. Revolutions in Verse: The Medium of Russian Modernism s......more
Fyodor Dostoevsky--Darkness and Dawn (1848-1849), the third and final volume on the writer’s childhood, adolescence, and......more
Today’s Russia, Unstuck in Time suggests, is a nation of time travelers, living either in memories of the Great Patrioti......more
Today’s Russia, Unstuck in Time suggests, is a nation of time travelers, living either in memories of the Great Patrioti......more
This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares repre......more
This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares repre......more
Together with a new political, social, and cultural order, the Bolshevik Revolution also brought about a spatial revolut......more
In this edited translation of famed writer Ivan Bunin’s Recollections translator Thomas Gaiton Marullo provides an intim......more
In this edited translation of famed writer Ivan Bunin’s Recollections translator Thomas Gaiton Marullo provides an intim......more
In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were "key to their generation......more
In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were "key to their generation......more
The second volume of a ground-breaking work of philosophy and Russian literature, translated into English for the first ......more
The republic of Turkey and the Soviet Union both emerged from the wreckage of empires surrounding World War I, and pathw......more
The republic of Turkey and the Soviet Union both emerged from the wreckage of empires surrounding World War I, and pathw......more
An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state. The nineteenth-century nove......more
An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state. The nineteenth-century nove......more
"An estimated 40,000 Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War. How did Jewish poets and investigators in the 1920......more
"An estimated 40,000 Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War. How did Jewish poets and investigators in the 1920......more
Three Men: A Novel, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and......more
Three Days in the Village, and Other Sketches Written from September 1909 to July 1910., is a classical and a rare book,......more
The Three Comrades, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and......more
Russian literature, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and......more
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots); A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue, is a classical and a rare book,......more
Russian Silhouettes: More Stories of Russian Life, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important th......more
A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout t......more
Russian Lyrics, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so ......more
Rudin: A Novel, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so ......more
Sielanka: An Idyll, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and......more
Work Flows investigates the emergence of "flow" as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Maya Vino......more
Border Conditions combines history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to examine lives at the limits ......more
For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death......more
For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death......more
This volume considers Dostoevsky’s The Gambler from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on its psychological......more
"This book examines literary tradition as manifested in the nineteenth-century Russian canon and the discourse of histor......more
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The remarkable story of seven contemporary Russian-language poets whose experimental work anchors a thriving dissident a......more
This collection of previously unpublished autobiographical and semi-autobiographical "snippets of experience" written by......more
Anton Chekhov is justly famous as an author and a playwright, with his work continuing to appear on stages around the wo......more
Although understudied in the West, Iurii Trifonov was a canonical Soviet author whose lifetime spanned nearly the whole ......more
Does metafiction - the literary technique that forces readers to acknowledge that they are reading a work of fiction - h......more
The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, is published......more
Mother, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is neve......more
Explores and illuminates the impact of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin on our understanding of literary modernis......more
In December 1825, a group of liberal aristocrats, officers, and intelligentsia mounted a coup against the tsarist govern......more
This book investigates men and quiltmaking, an under-researched part of the U.S.-American quilt world. It analyzes the c......more
Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russia......more
The Czech Manuscripts is dedicated to one of the most important literary forgeries on the model of Macpherson’s Ossianic......more
Staging the Absolute examines the use of public ritual to interrupt the flow of history, a distinct element in Russian c......more
Seven Russian Archetypes is a description of seven seminal Russian figures: the Victim (zhertva), the Fool (iurodivyi), ......more
Seven Russian Archetypes is a description of seven seminal Russian figures: the Victim (zhertva), the Fool (iurodivyi), ......more
Ukraine’s remarkable aptitude for resilience and grassroots activism, as witnessed since February 2022, is closely conne......more
Ukraine’s remarkable aptitude for resilience and grassroots activism, as witnessed since February 2022, is closely conne......more
A searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan "Among Ukr......more
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An Indwelling Voice presents a framework for understanding how, despite linguistic and philosophical barriers, sincere v......more
Why did medicine fascinate writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s? This book traces the prevalent medical themes ......more
Russian literature is the body of written works created in Russian language. It includes both the residents of Russia as......more
Where Currents Meet, Tanya Zaharchenko’s path-breaking study of literature and cultural memory, moves decisively beyond ......more
A deeply researched account of Joseph Brodsky’s evolution in English as a self-translator and a poet in translation Jose......more
This book focuses on the writers who lived through the processes of de-Stalinization and re-Stalinization during the 196......more
A deeply researched account of Joseph Brodsky’s evolution in English as a self-translator and a poet in translation Jose......more
This second book in a three-volume work on the young Fyodor Dostoevsky is a diary-portrait of his early years drawn from......more
The April 2023 issue of Slavonic & East European Review. The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL S......more
As many as half a million Russians lived in Germany in the 1920s, most of them in Berlin, clustered in and around the Ch......more
This book is a collection of plays by Leo Tolstoy, one of the most celebrated authors of all time. The plays cover a ran......more
This book is a collection of plays by Leo Tolstoy, one of the most celebrated authors of all time. The plays cover a ran......more
The first in-depth study of Vaslav Nijinsky’s life-writing, this book combines textual analysis and literary theory with......more
"Ecstasy, witchcraft, bewilderment-these ten loving vignettes on scandalous corners of Russian culture, by one of our mo......more
"Ecstasy, witchcraft, bewilderment-these ten loving vignettes on scandalous corners of Russian culture, by one of our mo......more
The story of Don Juan first appeared in writing in seventeenth-century Spain, reaching Russia about a century later. Its......more
For its eighteenth volume The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, add......more
A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, this book supplies an original conceptualization of the Arc......more
A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated goo......more
Literary scholars largely agree that the Romantic period altered the definition of tragedy, but they have confined their......more
The Vortex That Unites Us is a study of totality in Russian literature, from the foundation of the modern Russian state ......more
Tamizdat offers a new perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story of the contraband manuscripts se......more
This is the first single volume in either English or Russian on the representation of Pushkin in Yuri Tynianov’s novels.......more
The October 2022 issue of Slavonic & East European Review. The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL......more
Notes from the Underground, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that ......more
Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia’s greatest writers--poets, novelists, critics, and h......more
A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars......more
A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars......more
Aleksandr Prokhanov is a prize-winning novelist and, as editor of the weekly newspaper Zavtra, a leading figure in Russi......more
A conventional view of Russia represents it as a country where autocracy, centralised rule, and domination by the ’power......more
This book examines the reception of Darwin’s books and ideas in Russia as a cultural phenomenon, involving language, lit......more
In Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century, eleven teachers of Vladimir Nabokov describe how and why they t......more
The present volume includes a foreword by prominent Dungan poet Iskhar Shisyr, an introductory chapter, footnotes, an in......more
Confronting Bakhtin’s formative reading of Dostoevsky to recover the ways the novelist stokes conflict and engages reade......more
Confronting Bakhtin’s formative reading of Dostoevsky to recover the ways the novelist stokes conflict and engages reade......more
Plot elements such as adventure, travel to far-flung regions, the criminal underworld, and embezzlement schemes are not ......more
In the twentieth century, various Sephardic authors from the former Yugoslavia took upon themselves the task of revitali......more
The July 2022 issue of Slavonic & East European Review. The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL Sc......more
Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) is a novella by Fyo......more
This book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates ......more