Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this int

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Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the wester

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic stru

An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literatur