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

This book explores the unique way in which Russian culture constructs the notion of everyday life...

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

Karamzin was the foremost Russian representative of the late eighteenth-century Sentimentalist mo...

This book presents an overview of how anthropology in Russia has been transformed since Soviet ti...

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

The Development of Russian Verse explores the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky, sh...

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

This work is an innovative and controversial study of how four famous Jews writing in Russian in ...

Petrushka, the Russian equivalent of Punch and Judy, was one of the most popular spectacles at fa...

This is a comprehensive study of a group of avant-garde Soviet writers active in Leningrad in the...

The turn of the nineteenth century, a time of exceptional creativity in Russia, was also a time o...