Henry Gifford was Winterstoke Professor of English at the University of Bristol

• Introduction; Part One: The Transition from Poetry; 1: Pushkin: the novel in verse and prose; 2: Lermontov: A Hero of Our Own Time; 3: Gogol's Dead Souls; Part Two: Prose Paramount; A note on the critics; 4: Goncharov and the myth of Oblomov; 5: Turgenev in Fathers and Children; 6: Leskov and the righteous man; 7: Tolstoy: art and conscience (Anna Karenina); 8: Saltykov-Shchedrin: The Golovlyov Family; 9: Dostoevsky: the dialectic of resistance; Part Three: The Revolutionary Crisis; The beginning of modern times; 10: Chekhov the humanist; 11: Gorky and proletarian writing; 12: The age of decadence; 13: Soviet writing: the creative start; 14: Socialist realism; 15: Doctor Zhivago: a novel in prose and verse; Notes and references; Select bibliography; Index

Henry Gifford was Winterstoke Professor of English at the University of Bristol

• Introduction; Part One: The Transition from Poetry; 1: Pushkin: the novel in verse and prose; 2: Lermontov: A Hero of Our Own Time; 3: Gogol's Dead Souls; Part Two: Prose Paramount; A note on the critics; 4: Goncharov and the myth of Oblomov; 5: Turgenev in Fathers and Children; 6: Leskov and the righteous man; 7: Tolstoy: art and conscience (Anna Karenina); 8: Saltykov-Shchedrin: The Golovlyov Family; 9: Dostoevsky: the dialectic of resistance; Part Three: The Revolutionary Crisis; The beginning of modern times; 10: Chekhov the humanist; 11: Gorky and proletarian writing; 12: The age of decadence; 13: Soviet writing: the creative start; 14: Socialist realism; 15: Doctor Zhivago: a novel in prose and verse; Notes and references; Select bibliography; Index