How was it possible that an entire country could live in mute fear? Why did Soviet intellectuals denounce each other and conspire with the authorities to brainwash ordinary people? Why did submarines sink and nuclear power stations explode in the......

"GLAS gives us a sense of Russian literature in motion.lf it cannot-perhaps mercifully-convey fully what it is like to live in Russia at present, GLAS at least gives us a taste of wha...

The love-hate relationship between Jews and Russians dates back to the early 19th century as is testified by four essays in this issue, looking at this ages-old Russian problem from different angles....

This anthology presents a new generation of authors from various parts of Russia who never lived in the Soviet Union and therefore free of the Soviet legacy. Theirs is a fundamentally new way of thinking and seeing the world. These voices from the future deserve your attention. Compiled by Olga Slavnikova...

Bulgakov and Mandelstam never met and yet their lives had much in common. Both men were born in the same year, 1891, and both lives ended prematurely, crushed by the cruel totalitarian system....

Just as love is very much part of any human life, for the soviet citizen it was often accompanied by another powerful emotion--fear. For various reasons, as this collection shows, the two have always gone hand in hand in Russia....

Russia is a country rich in talent which as often gone unrecognized or been actively suppressed- and its literary achievements have frequently been inaccessible to non-Russians....

Excerpts from the novels shortlisted for the third Booker Russian Novel Prize read like complete stories and are followed by summaries of the novels and authors\' notes. Included are: Bulat Okudzhava (Winner), The Show is Over; Peter Aleshkovsky,......