In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this ...

This book interprets the baffling complex of meanings attached by Russian culture to the concept ...

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

Its unique ability to sway the masses has led many observers to consider cinema the artform with ...

Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not on...

The first book-length study of Andrei Bitov, one of contemporary Russia's most original writers.

This wide-ranging study presents an examination of the extraordinary diversity and range of satir...

Nikolai Zabolotsky (1903-1958) was one of the great poets of twentieth-century Russia. As the las...

This wide-ranging study presents an examination of the extraordinary diversity and range of satir...

This first full-length account of the Russian verse tradition shows how certain formal features a...

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

This book is an original and detailed attempt to re-examine Dostoyevsky the artist.