Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this int

This introduction presents the major themes, forms and styles of Russian poetry. Using examples from Russia's greatest poets, Michael Wachtel draws on three cen

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic stru

Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the wester

Russia has a rich, huge, unwieldy cultural tradition. How to grasp it? This classroom reader is designed to respond to that problem. The literary works selected