Selected works from the Nobel Laureate To mark the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky s eightieth birthday, FSG is publishing......more

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Vladimir Sorokin is the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. He became famous when the Putin youth organizati......more

Breaking Free from Death examines the lives and choices that Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, and Meyerhold must have faced in o......more

Breaking Free from Death examines the lives and choices that Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, and Meyerhold must have faced in o......more

The collapse of the Soviet Union forced Russia to engage in a process of nation building. This involved a reassessment o......more

The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to com......more

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Written in Blood offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed ......more

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Readers are often left uncertain how to understand the rich meanings of Mikhail Bulgakov’s comic and beautiful novel The......more

Readers are often left uncertain how to understand the rich meanings of Mikhail Bulgakov’s comic and beautiful novel The......more

In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences o......more

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It is well known that many of the best-known queer writers of the 1930s were involved with leftist politics. Why, then, ......more

During the late Soviet period, the art collective known as the Mitki emerged in Leningrad. Producing satirical poetry an......more

Sergey Gandlevsky’s 2002 novel Illegible has a double time focus, centering on the immediate experiences of Lev Krivorot......more

In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "......more

A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth centur......more

ONE OF SMITHSONIAN S BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides--Pushkin, Tolstoy, G......more

Awarded the Jane Grayson Prize by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspec......more

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This collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century includes works by famous writers and young talents alike,......more

Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II--and it s a novel a......more

Until the 1940s, when awareness of Russian Formalism began to spread, literary theory remained almost exclusively a Russ......more

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This work connects productions of plays by Ibsen and Chekhov with adaptations made by contemporary Irish playwrights, de......more

The common thread of astronomy is fantastically important for understanding the Strugatskiis’ works-their most important......more

Can a book change the world? Fighting Words looks at how the book has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth......more

Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to th......more

Yuri Izdryk’s poetry explodes with existential contemplations and addresses regarding love, identity, nature, society, a......more

The book analyzes debates about civil-military relationships in post-9/11 wars, observing how civic activists promote In......more

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This volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multinational project, with national l......more

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide is a study of the phenomenon of suicide in modern and post-moder......more

Is it possible to cultivate fundamental human values if you live in a totalitarian state? A teacher who has organised th......more

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No other thinker so engaged the Russian cultural imagination of the early twentieth century as did Friedrich Nietzche. T......more

Photography, introduced to Russia in 1839, was nothing short of a sensation. Its rapid proliferation challenged the othe......more

Innovative poets such as Vsevolod Nekrasov, Lev Rubinstein, and Dmitry Prigov are among the most prominent literary figu......more

When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a "realist in a higher sense," it is because the facts are irrelevant to his......more

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines Leo Tolstoy’s unorthodox and provocative approach to spirituality. ......more

The powerful prose of Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers today. A Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts aims t......more

One of the twentieth century s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Koj ve was a Russian migr to France......more

Yuri Andrukhovych emerged as a prominent voice in Ukrainian literature with the publication of his first book of poems i......more

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

Ghostly Paradoxes is an innovative work of literary scholarship that traces the reactions of Russia’s major realist auth......more

As a writer and prophet Dostoevsky was no academic theologian, yet his writings are deeply theological: his life, belief......more

In the darkest recesses of Ukraine, a war is raging. A journalist takes a research trip to the front line. Teenage girls......more

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Orbita, founded in Riga in 1999, is a collective of Latvian poets writing in Russian whose unique work plays at the boun......more

On the Threshold of Eurasia explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet "East" as a political, aesthetic, and scientific......more

This collection examines the letters of Anton Chekhov, which have received relatively little scholarly attention. The co......more

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The articles featured in The Human Reimagined examine the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the bod......more

The articles featured in The Human Reimagined examine the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the bod......more

Modernism, Internationalism and the Russian Revolution examines responses to the Russian Revolution and the formation of......more

Dublin’s slums were once considered the worst in Europe. The city’s tenements were omnipresent, and their inhabitants pl......more

Vasily Grossman (1905?1964) was a successful Soviet author and journalist, but he is more often recognized in the West a......more

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When Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a sto......more

"God only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass in a single d......more

Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s mas......more

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Russia’s provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation’s cultural imagination. Popular culture has increasing......more

Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A His......more