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  • The Pushkin Project

    Russia's Favorite Writer, Modern Evolutionary Thought, and Teaching Inner-City Youth

    by David Bethea ...
    Series series Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts
    “Bethea’s book conveys the story of an amazingly ambitious attempt to preserve the humanities while also saving the future of disadvantaged high school students in Chicago. … Highly recommended.” — Library Journal (starred review)The Pushkin Project tells the story of how a Russian studies professor changes course late in his career by reeducating himself in evolutionary thought and founding a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barcelona Prose

    by Efim Etkind, David Bethea ...
    Translated by Helen Reeve, Joyse Man, Julia Trubikhina ...
    Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union. Unlike other memoirists who have faced hardships, Etkind's tone is never cruel or embittered. Told through the lens of a practiced scholar, he captures the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russian Literature and Cognitive Science

    by Tom Dolack, Denis Akhapkin, David Bethea, Ekaterina Chelpanova, Brett Cooke, Kelly Knickmeier Cummings, Katherina B. Kokinova, Anna A. Lazareva, Julia Lerner, Irina Meier0, Sarah B. Mohler1, Michal Mrugalski2, Anna Novikova3, Angelina Rubina4, David S. Danaher5 ...
    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    Russian Literature and Cognitive Science applies the newest insights from cognitive psychology to the study of Russian literature. Chapters focus on writers and cultural figures from the Golden to the Internet Age including: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Sologub, Bely, Akhmatova, Nabokov, Baranskaya, and contemporary online discourse. The authors draw on a wide array of cognitively-informed fields ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • All the Same The Words Don't Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition

    by Caryl Emerson, David Bethea ...
    All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty-five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. The first explores the legacy of Mikhail Bakhtin: his ideas of dialogue and carnival, and the debates ignited by each. The second delves into three "master workers" of the Russian tradition: Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. In this section, emphasis is comparative: the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically

    by David Bethea ...
    For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the mythopoetic thinking that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems under threat of erasure and the question of how writers, and poets in ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

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  • Russian Literature

    by Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian lyric poetry ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • The Enigma of Isaac Babel

    Biography, History, Context

    Edited by Gregory Freidin ...
    A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939. Made famous by Red Cavalry, a book about the Russian civil war (he was the world's first "embedded" war reporter), another book about the Jewish gangsters of his native Odessa, and yet another about his ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Osip Mandelstam

    Selected Essays

    Osip Mandelstam, who died anonymously in a Siberian transit-camp in 1938, is now generally considered to be among the four or five greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, presented in an exceptionally scrupulous and true translation, were selected because they represent Mandelstam's major poetic themes and his thought on literature, language and culture, and the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Kremlin Wives

    The Secret Lives of the Women Behind the Kremlin Walls—From Lenin to Gorbachev

    by Larissa Vasilieva ...
    Translated by Cathy Porter ...
    For over seventy years the Kremlin was the bastion of the all-powerful Soviet rulers. A great deal is known about the men who held millions of fates in their iron grip, yet little is known about the women-the wives and mistresses-who shared their lives. They took part in the Revolution and its aftermath, bore children, and suffered abuse; some were arrested and sent to Siberia, driven to suicide, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Real Stalin

    by Andrew Curry ...
    Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a combination of political savvy and cold-blooded brutality. He crushed the spirit of his own people while conquering half of Europe. What made the greatest murderer of the twentieth century tick? ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hedgehog and the Fox

    An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Stalin

    The Court of the Red Tsar

    by Simon Sebag Montefiore ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of the Marxist leader and Russian tsar. • From thebestselling author of The Romanovs.“The first intimate portrait of a man who had more lives on his conscience than Hitler.... Disturbing and perplexing.” —The New York Times ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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