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

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

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

Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical oddity, ......more

An original investigation into the reading strategies and uses of books by Jews in the Soviet era. In The Soviet Jewish ......more

In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. ......more

A Woman’s Empire sheds light on how women’s voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia’s late imperial expansi......more

’Nabokov’s novels are playgrounds of perfection and dungeons of despair’ Exile, émigré and refugee, Vladimir Nabokov (18......more

This book presents how Nation and Narrative are bound together through the figure of the "N/native" as it appears in the......more

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s philosophical output collected in a singl......more

This book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn. Starting with his childhood, it covers......more

This book, first published in 2000, features analyses about and by some of the most important Russian writers of the 198......more

This book, first published in 1944, is a comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Russian literature up to the early 1......more

This book, first published in 1957, provides essential information on the entire field of Russian literature, as well as......more

This book, first published in 1950, is a balanced examination of Chekhov’s life and work, a critical analysis of his sto......more

This book, first published in 1959, contains passages with commentary from 12 of the most important Soviet authors. They......more

This book, first published in 1949, is an abridged version of Mirsky’s classic two texts on Russian literature, updated ......more

This book, first published in 1961, traces the lives and works of six outstanding Russian authors, each of whom is inter......more

This book, first published in 1978, demonstrates how Dostoyevsky’s novels grew directly out of the pressures of their cr......more

This biographical study, first published in 1985, draws on extensive newly available material and illuminates the life a......more

This book, first published in 1979, provides a systematic anatomy of Russia’s modern authors in the context of their soc......more

This book, first published in 1977, begins with a close look at the lives of nineteenth century Russian writers, and at ......more

Leo Tolstoy’s and Vladimir Nabokov’s radically opposed aesthetic worldviews emanate from a shared intuition--that approa......more

Человек из ресторана - повесть русского писателя Ивана Шмелёва, написанная в 1911 году и принёсшая писателю известность.......more

A new collection of short fiction and nonfiction by a Russian master of bittersweet humor, dramatic irony, and poignant ......more

Lev Tolstoi was not only one of the world’s most famous writers, he was also a deeply concerned thinker and hugely influ......more

This innovative book presents some fundamentally new interpretations of the best-known and best-loved classics of Russia......more

Are we witnessing a psychotic break? Or, has someone with physical features strikingly similar to his own spotted an opp......more

Through an analysis of suicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s writings, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how his implicit awareness of ......more

More than a century after his death in 1881, Fyodor Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers and reviewers. Countless s......more

What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraugh......more

Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain provides a detailed survey of the key responses to Milton’s work in Hungarian stat......more

Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain provides a detailed survey of the key responses to Milton’s work in Hungarian stat......more

Formalists against Imperialism reveals the artistic foresight of Russian formalist and modernist writer Yuri Tynianov in......more

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to ......more

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Russian Formalism is widely considered the foundation of modern literary theory. This book reevaluates the movement in l......more

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recast......more

Revolutionary Aftereffects looks at the legacies of the 1917 Revolution in Russia today through a variety of disciplinar......more

Every major socio-political change starts with some discarding. Suffice it to think about the heaps of rubbish consistin......more

This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged......more

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"Uses an archival research method, which has not yet been done in relation to Joseph Brodsky’s work, to examine how the ......more

Soviet Samizdat traces the emergence and development of samizdat, one of the most significant and distinctive phenomena ......more

In this collection, Oleh Lysheha creates worlds in which horses drawn on Paleolithic caves speak their truths and the gl......more

Martina Napolitano explores the poetics of one of the most significant Russian authors of the 20th century. Sasha Sokolo......more

The introduction and translated poems of Mandelstam within are the gold-standard for critics and readers who don’t know ......more

The introduction and translated poems of Mandelstam within are the gold-standard for critics and readers who don’t know ......more

From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an access......more