Mikhail Bulgakov

Roger Cockrell

Professor Persikov has discovered a light ray that accelerates the growth of living things, but when he exposes the wrong batch of eggs to the ray he creates mutant giant snakes and crocodiles that terrorize the neighbourhood, and his character is destroyed by the press.

The Fatal Eggs

Fyodor Dostoevsky

House of the Dead

Антон Павлович Чехов

Hugh Aplin

Three Years

Careers Research and Advisory Centre (Cambridge, England)

Russian

A Study of the Stories and Literary Theories of Aleksandr Fadeev, 1922-1932

David John Richards

Russian Views of Pushkin

This study of 25 texts looks at the influence of Bolshevik ideology upon Russian literature of the period. The issues covered include; the attitude of the Bolshevik party towards literature, the relationship between belles-lettres and propaganda, the significance of the term proletarian, the portrayal of heroes in literary texts, the attitude toward pre-revolutionary culture and the attitude to be adopted towards writers and artists unwilling to conform to the accepted viewpoint.

Bolshevik Ideology and Literature, 1917-1927

David Richards

The Voice of a Giant looks at seven masterpieces of Russian nineteenth-century prose fiction-Pushkin's 'The Queen of Spades', Lermontov's 'A Hero of Our Time', Gogol's 'The Greatcoat', Turgenev's 'Fathers and Sons', Dostoevsky's 'Notes from Underground', Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' and Chekhov's 'The Lady with the Dog'. Each chapter concentrates primarily on a detailed analysis of one of these works but reference is also made to historical background, the seven author's general attitudes and the distinguishing characteristics of Russian literature. The book is intended for A-Level students, for first- and second-year undergraduates, and for the general reader exploring the richness and subtlety of a body of writing which has profoundly influenced the modern European consciousness.

Essays on Seven Russian Prose Classics

The Voice of a Giant

The Exeter English-Russian Dictionary of Cultural Terms is a unique work of reference whose aim is to provide English speakers who possess at least some knowledge of Russian with the Russian equivalents of foreign and cultural terms in widespread use.

The Exeter English-Russian Dictionary of Cultural Terms

Roger Cockrell

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