Russian & Slavic Books

New and Published Books

1. Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union

   By Rina Lapidus

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   This book presents the lives and works of eleven Jewish women authors who lived in the Soviet Union, and who wrote and published their works in Russian. The works include poems, novels, memoirs and other writing. The book provides an overview of the life of each author, an overview of each author’s...

   Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge
2. Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing

   By Margarita Marinova

   Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

   In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian...

   Published June 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Russian Children's Literature and Culture

   Edited by Marina Balina, Larissa Rudova

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Soviet literature in general and Soviet children’s literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and critics as propaganda. Below the surface, however, Soviet children’s literature and culture allowed its creators greater experimental and creative...

   Published January 23rd 2011 by Routledge
4. The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies

   Edited by Michael Kemper, Stephan Conermann

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental tradition was deeply linked to politics – probably even more than other European ‘Orientalisms’. It...

   Published January 17th 2011 by Routledge
5. Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy: The Critical Heritage

   Edited by Mr A V Knowles, A. V. Knowles

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in...

   Published October 18th 2010 by Routledge
6. Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory

   Russian Literary Mnemonics

   By Mikhail Gronas

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. He focuses on the mnemonic processes involved in literary creativity, and the question of how our memories...

   Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
7. The Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia

   Old Intellectuals in the New Russia

   By Inna Kochetkova

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Russia is one of the few countries in the world where intellectuals existed as a social group and shared a unique social identity. This book focuses on one of the most important and influential groups of Russian intellectuals - the 1960s generation of shestidesyatniki - often considered the...

   Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
8. Anton Chekhov

   Edited by Victor Emeljanow

   This set comprises forty volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first sixty-eight volume set of Critical Heritage...

   Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge
9. Narrating Post/Communism

   Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization

   By Natasa Kovacevic

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history, political science and literature - on the fostering of new identities across Eastern European countries in the absence of the old...

   Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
10. Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe

    The Russian, Czech and Slovak Fiction of the Changes 1988-98

    By Rajendra Anand Chitnis

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods. It focuses on the most innovative trend to emerge in this period, on those writers who, during and after the collapse of communism, characterised themselves as 'liberators' of literature....

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge