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Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace, one of the world's greatest film epics, originated as a consequence of the Cold War. Conceived as a response to King Vidor's War and Peace, Bondarchuk's surpassed that film in every way, giving the USSR one small victory in the cultural Cold War for hearts and minds. This book, taking up Bondarchuk's masterpiece as a Cold War film, an epic, a literary adaptation, a historical drama, and a rival to Vidor's Hollywood version, recovers--and expands--a lost chapter...

Der zweite Band der Wiener Konferenz (2013) anlasslich des 90. Geburtstages von Nikita Il'ic Tolstoj (+ 1996) zur traditionellen Volkskultur und zur Sprachgeschichte der Slavia Orthodoxa, den beiden Hauptstrangen der Forschungsarbeit des bedeutenden Moskauer Philologen, enthalt die sprachgeschichtlichen Beitrage seiner Kollegen, Mitarbeiter und Schuler. Die versammelten Beitrage dieses Bandes sind in slavischen Sprachen verfasst. (2013 .), 90-...

Dostoevskijs Kompositionsprinzipien werden in diesem Buch untersucht. Ausgangspunkt ist eine UEberlegung, die bedeutenden Schriftstellern gelaufig ist: dass man die Weltsicht eines Autors weniger an eingestreuten zitierfahigen Satzen zu zeitgenoessischen Sachverhalten erkennt, als an der Art, wie sich die literarischen Gestalten zueinander verhalten, wie sich im Verlaufe des Buches diese Beziehungen verandern. Die weithin bekannten Romane Schuld und Suhne, Der Idiot, Die Damonen und Die Bruder...

The lives of animals in Russia are intrinsically linked to cultural, political and psychological transformations of the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras. Other Animals examines the interaction of animals and humans in Russian literature, art, and life from the eighteenth century until the present. The chapters probe a range of human-animal relationships through tales of cruelty, interspecies communion and compassion, and efforts to either overcome or establish the human-animal divide. Thes...

This first annotated translation of Ivan Bunin's The Liberation of Tolstoy is a timely accompaniment to the ongoing revival of the Russian writer, both in his homeland and the West. Written in 1937, more than two decades after Leo Tolstoy's death, The Liberation of Tolstoy--equal parts biography, memoir, and literary study--serves as a dialogue between two great writers on the proklyatye voprosy, or "damned questions," of life.

This interpretive essay brings a poetic sensibility to bear on the lives and works of three major Russian writers. It is Ilya Kutik's contention that many writers are tormented by secret fears and desires that only writing - in particular, the use of certain words and images - can exorcise. Making this biographical approach peculiarly his own - and susceptible to the nuances of comedy, tragedy and critical equanimity - Kutik reads works of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov and Nikolai Gogol,...

Im Unterschied zu der Arbeit S.D. Baluchatyjs -Die Bibliothek Cechovs-, die langst zu einer Raritat geworden ist, bietet die Publikation von A.V. Chanilo die vollstandigste Beschreibung der "Jaltaer" Bibliothek des grossen Schriftstellers, d.h. der Bucher, von denen sich Cechov zeitlebens nicht getrennt hat. Die Arbeit enthalt nicht nur eine detaillierte bibliographische Bestandsaufnahme der Bibliothek, sondern auch die Beschreibung samtlicher Randbemerkungen Cechovs wie auch eine Beschreibung d...

`Riveting, tragic tale’ New Yorker `Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion’ Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya – the tragic true story that inspired Doctor Zhivago. Doctor Zhivago has sold in its millions yet the true love story that inspired it has never been fully explored. Pasternak would often say `Lara exists, go and m...

Klaus Mann (1906-1949) was a prolific author who engaged in constantly different fields, from journalism to novels, plays and autobiographies. An exile in the United States, he had to reinvent himself as an Anglophone author. This publication sets out to present a new portrait of Klaus Mann as a cultural mediator between Europe and America, starting from his own definition of himself as an American author of European tradition and cosmopolitan mentality. It primarily focuses on his lesser-known...

When Lenin asked, "Who will beat whom?" (Kto kogo?), he had no plan to wage revolutionary class war in culture. Many young Communists thought differently, however. Seeking in the name of the proletariat to wrest "cultural hegemony" from the intelligentsia, they turned culture into a battlefield in the 1920s. But was this, as Communist militants thought, a genuine class struggle between "proletarian" Communists and the "bourgeois" intelligentsia? Or was it, as the intelligentsia believed, an onsl...