What special possibilities for literary creation arise in periods of rapid transition from one set of social institutions to another? This book examines four such periods in Russian history: the era o
In this ambitious book, Kevin M. F. Platt focuses on a cruel paradox central to Russian history: that the price of progress has so often been the traumatic suffering of society at the hands of the sta
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. HIT PARADE is a bilingual Russian-English collection of poems by the four leading authors of the Orbita creative collective, based in Riga, Latvia: Semyon Khanin, Artur Punt
Is there an essential Russian identity? What happens when "Russian" literature is written in English, by such authors as Gary Shteyngart or Lara Vapnyar? What is the geographic "home" of Russian cultu
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star PressAnna Akhmatova (1889–1966) was a skilled love poet who, through no choice of her own, became a witness to mass violence, a widel
The USSR equivalent of Orwell's Ministry of Truth must have worked overtime to churn out the newspaper articles, curriculum and literature that supported the concept that Stalinism was not only good b
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star PressModernist Archaist offers a comprehensive English-language selection of Osip Mandelstam’s poetry, edited by Russian scholar Kevi
