Bücher der Reihe Stanford Slavic Studies

The volume elucidates new aspects of Polish-Russian, German-Russian, Russian-Baltic, and Russian-French literary contacts.The essays deal with Blok, Bely, Akhmatova, Babel, Jabotinsky, Remizov, and Nabokov and cover post-Stalinist Soviet "samizdat" and the story of publication of Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"

This book brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. Their essays propose new approaches and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes central to literary scholarship, such as theory of Russian verse, history of Russian Formalism, Russian-German and Russian-Italian cultural ties.