KAREN RYAN is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. Her work has appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals, including Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Literature, Canadian Slavonic Paper and Zeitschrift fur Slawistik. She is the author of two books: Russian Publicistic Satire Under Glasnost': The Journalistic Feuilleton and Contemporary Russian Satire: A Genre Study. She is author-editor of Venedikt Erofeev's Moscow-Petushki: Critical Perspectives.BARRY SCHERR is the Mandel Family Professor of Russian and Associate Dean for the Humanities at Dartmouth College. His teaching interests include both nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature, comparative literature, and film. He is the author of articles on Russian prose, Russian poetry of the Silver Age, verse theory, and other topics; among his books are Russian Poetry: Meter, Rhythm, and Rhyme and, most recently, Maksim Gorky: Selected Letters, which he co-edited and co-translated with Andrew Barratt.

'[the essays] are of a consitently high standard and together make a strong contribution...' - David N. Wells, Slavic and East European Journal

• General Editor's Introduction Notes on the Contributors PART I: THE EARLY DECADES Introduction; B.P.Scherr From the Finland Station: Ivan Konevskoi; J.D.Grossman Early Twentieth-century Best-sellers and the Aesthetics of 'Mass' Consciousness; A.Gracheva Shadow Narratives and the Novel: The Role of Rybin in Gorky's Mother; B.P.Scherr The City as Framed Spectacle in the Works of Elena Guro; M.Banjanin 'Apollion' and 'Voina': History and the Angel of Destruction in Voloshin's War Poetry; A.M.Basom The Spirit of the Medieval in the Work of M.A. Voloshin; A.Gibson Imagery of War and Revolution in the Poetry of Voloshin and Mandelstam; N.Roklina PART II: THE POST-STALIN DECADES Introduction; K.Ryan The Rhythmical Composition of Doctor Zhivago; M.Langleben Coming to Terms: Ideology and Experience in Camp Literature; D.Tolczyk Sinyavsky and Vonnegut: The Themes of Displacement and Alienation; I.Szarycz Clash of Generations in Russian Literature: From Yurii Trifonov to Lyudmila Razumovskaya; A.Krzychlkiewicz The Artistic Evolution of Vladimir Makanin (1970s-1980s); E.A.Krasnostchekova Modest Platonovich in Bitov's Pushkin House : A Theory of History and Culture; H.Baker Sokolov's Palisandriya : The Art of History; K.Ryan Multiple Comic Coding: Comedy, Satire and Parody in the Strugatskys' Tale Monday Begins on Saturday ; E.Z.Kozlowski The Seduction of the Story: Flight and 'Fall' in Tolstaya's Heavenly Flame ; C.Nepomnyashchy More Than One: The Doubles in Brodsky's Poetic World; V.Polukhina Metafictional Strategies of Russian Post-modern Prose; N.Kolesnikoff Borders and Metamorphoses: Viktor Pelevin in the Context of Post-Soviet Literature; A.Genis Nationalism in Literary Criticism in Russia Today; H.Mondry On the Nature of Russian Post-modernism; M.Lipovetsky Index