By Michael Scammell
October 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn. Starting with his childhood, it covers every period of his life in considerable detail, showing how Solzhenitsyn’s development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society: ambitious and idealistic in the...
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By Ronald Hingley
October 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1959, contains passages with commentary from 12 of the most important Soviet authors. They are lively and typical passages, written in varying styles, depicting historical events such as the 1917 Revolution, collectivisation and the death of Stalin, as well as the ...
By David Magarshack
October 15, 2022
What is Chekhov’s method of ensuring audience participation? What does his stage direction ‘through tears’ mean? What happens between the first and second acts of The Seagull? Is there any reason for the despondency in Chekhov’s drama? This book, first published in 1972, discusses these questions ...
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By N. Gangulee
October 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1943, is a literary anthology purposefully presenting a picture of the Soviet Union to a new audience in the West. It collects together a rich variety of pre-revolutionary Russian literature as well as a host of Soviet literature. Together they reveal the dynamic ...
By Various
June 16, 2021
This set of 16 previously out-of-print titles brings together some classic scholarship on Russian writers from the Imperial and Soviet periods. Michael Scammell’s key biography of Solzhenitsyn and Professor Ronald Hingley’s groundbreaking works contextualising the lives of Russian writers are among...