Russian & Slavic

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Popular Russian dramatist and short-story writer. Writings include: The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard. Volume covers the period 1891-1945...

Carnivalizing Difference explores the actual and possible relationships between Bakhtinian theory and cultural practice...

Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought back to the present and made to live again...

Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a comparison between the depiction of Hitler in Germ..

Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels ever written. This study, first published in 1989, of its morally ambiguous protagonist, Anna, discusses Tolstoy’s troubled relation to the feminine in terms of the fantasies, hopes, and fears that she represents...

Originally published in 1952, this book examines the change from revolutionism to nationalism which took place in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. It describes the course of this change, as shown by Stalin's decrees and writings, and discusses the Stalinist conception of Russian and world history,..

In this book, originally published in English in 1953, the author, recognized as one of the best-informed experts on Eastern European politics, reconstructed during the course of a decade's work, the real history of Stalin, from his youth in Georgia to the last year of his life. Utilizing an enormou..

The author states here that Tolstoy's views on education were ingenious and profound. It considers the development of his thought on teaching alongside the state of education at the time the book was first published, in 1923. This will be of interest for the educational historian as well as those in..

With its demand that works of art be judged according to the their morally didactic content, Tolstoy’s reviled aesthetics has seemed to exclude from the canon far too many works widely accepted as masterpieces. First published in 1985, this study argues that these are not mere oversights on the part..

This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin. Tolstoy: An Approach, first published in 1944, seeks to discern the relationship between Tolstoy the novelist and Tolstoy the religious pseudo-prophet.In Dostoevsky: A Study, published first in 1..

Tolstoy was as much a philosopher as a novelist. From the entries in his early diaries through to the great novels he was constantly searching for a comprehensive vision, equal to ‘the confusion of life’. This volume, published first in 1975, assesses Tolstoy’s character-portraits in the light of hi..

Controversial Russian novelist, regarded as the most original prose writer of the twentieth century. Writings include: Lolita. Volume covers the period 1941-1977. Extras: Chronological table of Nabokov's life and works...