Books in the Stanford Slavic Studies series

The volume elucidates new aspects of Polish-Russian, German-Russian, Russian-Baltic, and Russian-French literary contacts.The essays deal with Blok, Bely, Akhmatova, Babel, Jabotinsky, Remizov, and Nabokov and cover post-Stalinist Soviet "samizdat" and the story of publication of Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"

The book discusses Russia's contacts with the West from the eighteenth century to modernist literature to early Soviet poetry and post-revolutionary emigration. The articles offer new perspectives on the study of Russian literature in a comparative context.

This book brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. Their essays propose new approaches and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes central to literary scholarship, such as theory of Russian verse, history of Russian Formalism, Russian-German and Russian-Italian cultural ties.