Slavic Studies / Slavic Literature

Staging the Absolute examines the use of public ritual to interrupt the flow of history, a distinct element in Russian culture during the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

An Indwelling Voice presents a framework for understanding how, despite linguistic and philosophical barriers, sincere voices are written and read in poetry.

This volume presents, for the first time in English, fourteen essays by Yuri Andrukhovych, making a well-known Ukrainian voice accessible to the English-speaking world.

A Woman's Empire sheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.

Formalists against Imperialism reveals the artistic foresight of Russian formalist and modernist writer Yuri Tynianov into the phenomenon later known as Orientalism.

Revolutionary Aftereffects looks at the legacies of the 1917 Revolution in Russia today through a variety of disciplinary lenses.

Writing Fear examines how nineteenth-century Russian writers borrowed from European gothic fiction, demonstrating the ways in which this helped transform literary realism.

Blood of Others offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Sea region, one of Europe’s most volatile flashpoints, by chronicling the aftermath of Stalin’s 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars in four different literary traditions.

This collection of essays by Sasha Sokolov – one of the most important living Russian novelists – presents his ideas on art, literature, writing, and culture.

Reconsidering Dostoevsky’s legacy 200 years after his birth, this collection addresses how and why his novels contribute so much to what we think of as the modern condition.

This collection offers a variety of scholarly views on illustrated books for Soviet children, covering everything from artistic innovation to state propaganda.

Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors tells the stories of participants in the Russian avant-garde movement who lived through and continued to work under Stalin’s repressive

This study links the careers of Russia’s three most famous nineteenth-century authors – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Pushkin – into a single narrative.

This innovative study of one of the most important writers of Russian Golden Age literature argues that Gogol adopted a deliberate hybrid identity to mimic and mock the pretensions of the dominant culture.

You don’t know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.

In Automatic for the Masses, Petre M. Petrov offers a novel, theoretically informed account of the transition from modernism to Socialist Realism, tracing their connections through Modernist notions of agency and authorship.