Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, USA. He is the author of Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011, and the editor or co-editor of five books, including Russian Writers on Translation. An Anthology (co-edited with Natalia Olshanskaya, 2013). He is the Founding Editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.

This book is a valuable, original and significant contribution to the history of Russian translation and takes up an entirely different, refreshing perspective ... Baer has created a convincing, well-researched, unique and engaging study ... undoubtedly interesting and inspiring not only to Slavic scholars but also to any reader who is interested in a different and innovative approach to the significance of translation.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBorn in TranslationChapter OneReading between, Reading among: Poet-Translators in the Age of the DecembristsChapter TwoThe Translator as Forger: (Mis)Translating Empire in Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time and Roziner’s A Certain FinkelmeyerChapter ThreeThe Boy Who Cried “Volk”!: (Mis)Translating the Nation in Dostoevsky’s “Peasant Marei” and Iskander’s “Pshada”Chapter FourRe-figuring Translation: Translator-heroines in Russian Women’s WritingChapter FiveImitatio: Translation and the Making of Soviet SubjectsChapter SixReading Wilde in Moscow, or le plus ça change: Translations of Western Gay Literature in Post-Soviet RussiaChapter SevenUnpacking Daniel Stein, or Where Post-Soviet Meets PostmodernBibliographyIndex

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, USA. He is the author of Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011, and the editor or co-editor of five books, including Russian Writers on Translation. An Anthology (co-edited with Natalia Olshanskaya, 2013). He is the Founding Editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.

This book is a valuable, original and significant contribution to the history of Russian translation and takes up an entirely different, refreshing perspective ... Baer has created a convincing, well-researched, unique and engaging study ... undoubtedly interesting and inspiring not only to Slavic scholars but also to any reader who is interested in a different and innovative approach to the significance of translation.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBorn in TranslationChapter OneReading between, Reading among: Poet-Translators in the Age of the DecembristsChapter TwoThe Translator as Forger: (Mis)Translating Empire in Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time and Roziner’s A Certain FinkelmeyerChapter ThreeThe Boy Who Cried “Volk”!: (Mis)Translating the Nation in Dostoevsky’s “Peasant Marei” and Iskander’s “Pshada”Chapter FourRe-figuring Translation: Translator-heroines in Russian Women’s WritingChapter FiveImitatio: Translation and the Making of Soviet SubjectsChapter SixReading Wilde in Moscow, or le plus ça change: Translations of Western Gay Literature in Post-Soviet RussiaChapter SevenUnpacking Daniel Stein, or Where Post-Soviet Meets PostmodernBibliographyIndex

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, USA. He is the author of Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011, and the editor or co-editor of five books, including Russian Writers on Translation. An Anthology (co-edited with Natalia Olshanskaya, 2013). He is the Founding Editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.

This book is a valuable, original and significant contribution to the history of Russian translation and takes up an entirely different, refreshing perspective ... Baer has created a convincing, well-researched, unique and engaging study ... undoubtedly interesting and inspiring not only to Slavic scholars but also to any reader who is interested in a different and innovative approach to the significance of translation.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBorn in TranslationChapter OneReading between, Reading among: Poet-Translators in the Age of the DecembristsChapter TwoThe Translator as Forger: (Mis)Translating Empire in Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time and Roziner’s A Certain FinkelmeyerChapter ThreeThe Boy Who Cried “Volk”!: (Mis)Translating the Nation in Dostoevsky’s “Peasant Marei” and Iskander’s “Pshada”Chapter FourRe-figuring Translation: Translator-heroines in Russian Women’s WritingChapter FiveImitatio: Translation and the Making of Soviet SubjectsChapter SixReading Wilde in Moscow, or le plus ça change: Translations of Western Gay Literature in Post-Soviet RussiaChapter SevenUnpacking Daniel Stein, or Where Post-Soviet Meets PostmodernBibliographyIndex