Jonathan Stone is assistant professor of Russian and Russian studies at Franklin and Marshall College, where he also teaches in the comparative literature program.

Russian literature has an illustrious history. This Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature strives to give the reader a grasp of that history. This valuable reference work opens with a year-by-year chronology starting with a sacred text introducing the written alphabet in ca.860 and ending in 2010 with Putin's proposal to compile a canon of 100 books that every Russian school child must read and be tested on. This chronology is followed by an extensive narrative essay that discusses Russian literature's evolution during various literary time periods, including the romantic era, modernist poetry, and nineteenth-century novels.The heavily cross-referenced historical dictionary deals with poetry, novels, historical narratives, philosophical writings, and dramas....There is an extensive bibliography organized around the historical eras found in the introductory narrative essay....A superb, well-written, interesting book. The scholar as well as the casual reader will certainly learn a great deal about one of the foundations of Russian literature.

Jonathan Stone is assistant professor of Russian and Russian studies at Franklin and Marshall College, where he also teaches in the comparative literature program.

Russian literature has an illustrious history. This Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature strives to give the reader a grasp of that history. This valuable reference work opens with a year-by-year chronology starting with a sacred text introducing the written alphabet in ca.860 and ending in 2010 with Putin's proposal to compile a canon of 100 books that every Russian school child must read and be tested on. This chronology is followed by an extensive narrative essay that discusses Russian literature's evolution during various literary time periods, including the romantic era, modernist poetry, and nineteenth-century novels.The heavily cross-referenced historical dictionary deals with poetry, novels, historical narratives, philosophical writings, and dramas....There is an extensive bibliography organized around the historical eras found in the introductory narrative essay....A superb, well-written, interesting book. The scholar as well as the casual reader will certainly learn a great deal about one of the foundations of Russian literature.