Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol)

"This imposing volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come...It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public." -- Reference Reviews"It is not only a work that many libraries will find essential for the collections, but it is something that many individual scholars will want to acquire for their personal reference collections as well." -- College andResearch Libraries"Highly recommended for large public library and academic library collections." -- Booklist/RBB"Highly recommended for all libraries." -- Choice

• Editor’s Note page, Advisers and Contributors, Alphabetical List of Writers and Works, Alphabetical List of Works, Chronological List of Writers, General Reading List, Chronology, Glossary, Introductory Essays, Old Russian Literature, Pre-Revolutionary Russian Theatre, Russian Literature in the 18th Century, Aleksandr Pushkin: From Byron to Shakespeare, The Classic Russian Novel, The Superfluous Man in Russian Literature, Women’s Writing in Russia, Russian Literary Theory: From the Formalists to Lotman, Post-Revolutionary Russian Theatre, Experiment and Emigration: Russian Literature, 1917 - 1953, Socialist Realism in Soviet Literature, Thaws, Freezes, and Wakes: Russian Literature, 1953 - 1991, Russian Literature in the Post-Soviet Period, Writers and Works, Title Index, Notes on Advisers and Contributors