Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) has become the most popular Russian writer of the twentieth century, even though his works were banned for decades after his death, owing to the repressive censorship i
Evgeny Zamiatin is best known for his anti-utopian science-fiction novel “We” (1920), which George Orwell acknowledged as an inspiration for his own “1984”…
The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of British fascination with Russian and Soviet culture in the period
Written by a team of leading international scholars
Focuses on institutions,…
Russia in Britain offers the first comprehensive account of the breadth and depth of the British fascination with Russian and Soviet culture, tracing its transformative effect on British intellectual…
A collection of eleven Gothic-fantastic Russian short stories from the early twentieth century, including previously untranslated tales by Mikhail Bulgakov and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky…
Zamiatin’s anti-utopian novel “We” (1920) was acknowledged by George Orwell as one of the inspirations for his own “1984”, and was banned in the USSR until 1988…
Philip Ross Bullock looks at the life and works of Rosa Newmarch (1857-1940), the leading authority on Russian music and culture in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England…
Comrade Pavlik, the Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero
Author:
Catriona Kelly
Irina Smirenskaya
Publisher:
Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Review), Moscow
(2008)
The Russian translation of a study of the notorious boy hero Pavlik Morozov (1918-1932), who is supposed to have been murdered after he denounced his own father…