In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this ...

This book interprets the baffling complex of meanings attached by Russian culture to the concept ...

This is the first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus duri...

A fresh look at post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia and at the Soviet historical background that shape...

The first book-length study of Andrei Bitov, one of contemporary Russia's most original writers.

This wide-ranging study presents an examination of the extraordinary diversity and range of satir...

Nikolai Zabolotsky (1903-1958) was one of the great poets of twentieth-century Russia. As the las...

This wide-ranging study presents an examination of the extraordinary diversity and range of satir...

This first full-length account of the Russian verse tradition shows how certain formal features a...

In the Russian modernist era, literature threw itself open to influences from other art forms, mo...

This book is an original and detailed attempt to re-examine Dostoyevsky the artist.

In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state's work of...

Discontinuous Discourses in Modern Russian Literature

N.M. Karamzin (1766-1826) was the foremost Russian representative of the late eighteenth-century ...

An account of the interplay between literary and visual culture in the Russian modernist era.

This study is an innovative and controversial study of how the best-known Jews writing in Russian...

Catriona Kelly's study, the first to appear in English, traces the history of Petrushka, the Russ...

This is the first full-length study of the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune telling...

This is the first study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to Aesthe...

An examination of the influence of Christianity on the thought and work of Mikhail Bakhtin.

Russian women's writing is now attracting enormous interest both in the West and in Russia itself...

The Soviet writer Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) belongs to a Russian philosophical tradition that i...

A fresh look at post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia and at the Soviet historical background that shape...

The first study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to aestheticism.

This is a study of Iurii Trifonov (1925 81) and concentrates on his exploration of major events i...

This book provides a broad survey of the Russian poet Khlebnikov's work.

This book is a major critical biography of the poet Maria Tsvetaeva by one of the foremost author...

An exploration of poetic form in the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky, first publi...

Wagner is often held to have exerted a greater impact on modern culture than any other artist, ye...

In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state's work of...

This is the first book to provide a synthesizing study of Russian writing about the Caucasus duri...

A comprehensive study of the OBERIU group of avant-garde Soviet writers.

A provocative and stimulating revaluation of Nabokov that will interest any serious student of tw...

This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the reli...

This book provides a broad survey of the Russian poet Khlebnikov's work.

A conventional view of Russia represents it as a country where autocracy, centralised rule, and d...

In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this ...

This new edition provides a highly practical and comprehensive resource for bankers and lawyers, ...

Soviet Art House provides a unique look into a Soviet film studio from the 1960s to the years lea...

An intensely philosophical and religious poet, Olga Sedakova writes of nature, music, and the inn...

Refining Russia is a pioneering study of the development of advice literature ('how-to' books suc...

Elena Shvarts was the most outstanding Russian poet of her generation. 'Paradise' presents a dual...

This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture...

Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world's most ...