Browse Books in Russian & Former Soviet Union

Writing Rogues
The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921–1938

Stalingrad Lives
Stories of Combat and Survival

Revolutionary Aftereffects
Material, Social, and Cultural Legacies of 1917 in Russia Today

Soviet Samizdat
Imagining a New Society

The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature

Rethinking the Gulag
Identities, Sources, Legacies

Chekhov's Children
Context and Text in Late Imperial Russia

Dostoevsky at 200
The Novel in Modernity

The Akunin Project
The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author

Picturing the Page
Illustrated Children's Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin

Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song
Folklore in Context

Vasily Grossman
A Writer's Freedom

Archetypes from Underground
Notes on the Dostoevskian Self

Modernism in Kyiv
Jubilant Experimentation

Unforced Flourishing
Understanding Jaan Kaplinski

Tolstoy On War
Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace"

Vladimir Nabokov
Poetry and the Lyric Voice

My Life

The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story
A Critical Companion

On the Comic and Laughter

Memoirs and Madness
Leonid Andreev Through the Prism of the Literary Portrait

Vasil Byka?
His Life and Works

Vasil Bykau
His Life and Works

Russian Literature, 1995-2002
On the Threshold of a New Millennium