Biographies, literary & cultural analysis, work & topic overviews, selected full-text primary sources (short stories, poetry, speeches, plays, and essays), and more. Simultaneously searches Gale's Literature Criticism Series and most of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Profiles of writers and important works of Russian literature, from the Kievan period to the post-communist writing of the Russian Federation with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes "Women's Writing in Russia, pg. 35.
Poetry, drama and the Russian novel from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Includes chapter, "Women's Writing in Russia."
Essays on major writers, topics, periods, and genres. Authors are examined in literary and historical context, their works analyzed, and their influence on later authors.
Entries on people, arts, literature, film, theater, politics, economics, religion, and social systems of Russia from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation to the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.
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