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

A fresh look at post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia and at the Soviet historical background that shape...

Wagner is often held to have exerted a greater impact on modern culture than any other artist, ye...

The Soviet writer Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) belongs to a Russian philosophical tradition that i...

An exploration of poetic form in the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky, first publi...

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

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

N.M. Karamzin (1766-1826) was the foremost Russian representative of the late eighteenth-century ...

This study is an innovative and controversial study of how the best-known Jews writing in Russian...

In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state's work of...

Russian women's writing is now attracting enormous interest both in the West and in Russia itself...

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