Books in the Russian Literature and Thought Series series

This collection of essays by the liberal thinker Boris Nikolaevich Chicherin addresses the political and social problems that confronted Russia from 1855 to the start of the 20th century. He outlines ideological alternatives to the Bolshevik plan for revolutionary transformation of Russia.

This volume examines official Soviet concentration camp literature from the early 1920s through the mid-1960s. It probes the evolution of this literature, the totalitarian thinking that inspired it, and the scandalous role played by Russian literary intellectuals who created it.

Once an early supporter of the Bolsheviks, the author became disillusioned after the 1917 revolution and wrote a series of critical articles, analyses on the Russian national character, a condemnation of Bolshevik methods and a vision of the future. This is a collection of those articles.

This text discusses the passion for ideology among 19th- and 20th-century Russian intellectuals and the development of sophisticated critiques of ideology by a continuing minority of Russian thinkers who were inspired by liberalism.

A collection presenting, in English, the lives of 11 Russian women from the 19th century, as told in their own words. Toby Clyman and Judith Vowles introduce and annotate each memoir, and they set the writings in the context of Russian and western autobiographical traditions.