After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history. This book draws upon his extensive correspondence and other documents in order to provide an account of his life which explores his intimate preoccupations, as well as uncovering the political and cultural background to many of his works.

Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky is a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. The volume considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology, and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevsky's thought and art. Issues such as evolutionary theory and literature, science and society, scientific and theological components of comparative intellectual history, and aesthetic debates of the nineteenth century Russia form the core of the...

Postmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky's articles on Russian literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of Russian culture. The reader will find here articles about classic subversive texts (such as Nabokov's Lolita), performances (Pussy Riot), and recent, but also subversive, films. Other articles discuss such authors as Vladimir Sorokin, such sociocultural discourses as the discourse of scientific intelligentsia; post-Soviet...

Explores the major paradoxes of Russian literature as a manifestation of both tragic and ironic contradictions of human nature and national character. Russian literature, from Pushkin and Gogol to Chekhov, Nabokov and to postmodernist writers, is studied as a holistic text that plays on the reversal of such opposites as being and nothingness, reality and simulation, and rationality and absurdity.

Presents a translation of Professor Andrei Zorin's Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including ""The People's War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807"" and ""Holy Alliances: V.A. Zhukovskii's Epistle'To Emperor Alexander' and Christian Universalism."

Features a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia's cultural development, these essays examine some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness.

Examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a range of Russian literary works from this period, particularly the main Classical myths associated with Catherine, as well as how these Classical subjects affirmed imperial ideology and the monarch's power.

Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a range of Russian writers, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Solzhenitsyn, Close Encounters explores themes of chance and fate, freedom and responsibility, beauty and disfiguration, and loss and separation, as well as concepts of criticism and the moral purpose of art.