This book comprises the latest revisiting of Kantor’s artistic oeuvre by international authors reflecting drawings, pain......more

The first volume of Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader introduces a diverse spectrum of literary works fr......more

A translation of Professor Andrei Zorin’s seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several tha......more

The first volume of Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader introduces a diverse spectrum of literary works fr......more

While Dostoevsky’s relation to religion is well-trod ground, there exists no comprehensive study of Dostoevsky and Catho......more

NEW IN PAPERBACK First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, The Cherry Orch......more

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This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identi......more

The prose writings of Vladimir Nabokov form one of the most intriguing oeuvres of the twentieth century. His novels, whi......more

The first volume in an effort to make available to an english speaking audience the full breadth of Luckács work...more

Two plays from Belarus Free Theatre, an underground company that performs uncensored work in Europe s last bastion of di......more

Poetry. Translated from the Russian by Christopher Mattison. Shulpyakov is not only the inheritor of a great tradition ......more

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Dead Souls is a novel by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842. The story follows the character of Pavel......more

My Childhood is a memoir written by the Russian author Maxim Gorky. The book is a vivid and poignant account of Gorky’s ......more

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), a writer of world renown, grew up in a culturally refined family with diverse interests. N......more

With the publication of Michel Foucault’s last essays detailing his account of the aesthetics of existence and a post-me......more

Winner, 2014 AWSS Best Book in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women’s Studies In Russian culture, the archetypal mother i......more

Renaissance of Classical Allusions in Contemporary Russian Media builds on a growing body of work concerning post-Soviet......more

Celebrating three Russian literary greats--Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, and Andrei Voznesenski--this collection of......more

Dostoevsky’s philosophy of life is unfolded in this searching analysis of his five greatest works: Notes from the Underg......more

The book offers a novel attempt at recapitulating Gombrowicz s aesthetics in the postmodern Anglo-American context. The ......more

Major collection by a contemporary Russian avant-garde master The poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko made his debut in undergr......more

Who are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the meaning of life and death? Can we abolish death a......more

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The Vekhi (Landmarks) symposium (1909) is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political hist......more

This book addresses the themes of language, identity and linguistic politics in Europe, drawing on approaches and method......more

The stormy history of Poland has made commitment a staple feature of much Polish writing. Awarded the Nobel Prize for li......more

This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions......more

This book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (TheLiberator,......more

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An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, E......more

This volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory a......more

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Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky’s career. In Th......more

Shortly before Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions that the draft for his last novel, The Original of La......more

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Jewishness in Russian Culture is devoted to new approaches and methods for the study of Jewish acculturation in Russian ......more

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After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history, ......more

This book paints a vivid portrait of Anton Chekhov-a Russian writer whose elusive personality and richly detailed plays ......more

In 1938 tyranny attained unprecedented power: the Nazis annexed Austria and the Sudetenland, the Soviet purge reached it......more

Marek Hlasko s literary autobiography is a vivid, first-hand account of the life of a young writer in 1950s Poland and a......more

The study embraces both the historical and thematic evolution of Ukrainian science fiction. It examines the works of mos......more

This groundbreaking critical biography of Andrei Siniavskii (1925-1997) as a writer in and of his time shows how this su......more

Literature is not only about aesthetics, but also almost equally about economics. The successful marketing of an author ......more

Scholars have long noted the deeply rooted veneration of the power of the word--both the expressive and communicative ca......more

This study explores the evolution of Lomonosov s imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth c......more

This far-ranging study develops Morson s concept of prosaics, which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the......more

Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context discusses key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore as well as it......more

Ptushkina’s plays reflect her keen interest in constructing multidimensional characters that reflect the myriad ways peo......more

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The book contains a large number of pragmatic insights into Polish nominal syntagmas with an adjective. The aim of the r......more

This book paints a vivid portrait of Anton Chekhov-a Russian writer whose elusive personality and richly detailed plays ......more

James McGavran’s new translation of Vladimir Maya­kovsky’s poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet ......more

The ability to combine and arrange formal and meaningful units is an unquestionable advantage that languages have in com......more

Transnational Tolstoy renews and enhances our understanding of Tolstoy s fiction in the context of world literature. It......more

In the wake of Stalin’s death in 1953, the Soviet Union entered a period of relative openness known as the Thaw. Soviet ......more

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment ......more

Recognized as one of the greatest novelists of all-time, Fyodor Dostoevsky continues to inspire and instigate questions ......more

This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse within key examples in the Sl......more

In this wry, judiciously balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Galya Diment explores the complicated and fascinating r......more

This dual-language anthology presents fifteen compelling tales in a unique survey of twentieth-century Russian short fic......more

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) continues to be one of the writers most focused upon in academia throughout t......more

When writing his novella The Gambler in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky remained true to the old adage write what you know. Cr......more

Tolstoy was not always an old man-not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient marin......more

Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York examines the myth of America as the Other World at the moment of transition......more

After Stalin’s death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created.......more