[This book] traces the entire arc of [Isaac] Babel's literary career, beginning with Babel's first published story, "Old Shloyme," originally published in 1913, including his Red Cavalry Stories and the ... 1920 Diary, and concluding with two scenes from a screenplay Babel did n…
Reframing Russian modernism
Satirical stories by a Russian writer. The story, Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream, is on the transition from communism to capitalism as experienced by the cleaner of a public toilet, Bulldozer Driver's Day is on a hydrogen bomb assembly line, while The Ontology of Childhood compares…
Médecin de l'armée blanche pendant la Guerre civile, Mikhaïl Boulgakov (1891-1940) fut condamné à écrire pour son tiroir. Isolé, muselé, invectivé (traité de "bourgeois" pour avoir pris la défense de Pouchkine...), il travailla à se construire posthume. Les conditions étaient ré…
Médecin de l'armée blanche pendant la Guerre civile, Mikhaïl Boulgakov (1891-1940) fut condamné à écrire pour son tiroir. Isolé, muselé, invectivé (traité de "bourgeois" pour avoir pris la défense de Pouchkine...), il travailla à se construire posthume. Les conditions étaient ré…
Irina Sirotkina explores the transformations of Russian psychiatric practice through its relationship to literature during the period 1880-1930, when psychiatrists began to view literature as an indicator of the nation's mental health
Irina Sirotkina explores the transformations of Russian psychiatric practice through its relationship to literature during the period 1880-1930, when psychiatrists began to view literature as an indicator of the nation's mental health.
Apocalyptic riders, world souls, western(ized) boys, and Russian girls : before 1900 -- Wooing "My Rus'! My wife!" : (pre- )revolutionary Russia -- Virgin Russia meets Lenin and Stalin : the Soviet years -- Russia's orgasm, or Marrying Putin : late Soviet and post-Soviet culture.
