Contents
Foreword by R. C. Elwood 5
Editorial Board 6
Introduction by Arnold McMillin 7
Ewa M. Thompson
V. B. Shklovskii and the Russian Intellectual Tradition 11
J. J. van Baak
On the "Inconclusiveness" of World-Pictures in Russian Avant-Garde Prose 22
Efraim Sicher The "Color" of Judaism: Timespace Oppositions in the Synaesthesia of Osip Mandel'shtam's Shum vremeni 31
R. L. Busch
The Contexts of Bulgakov's Master i Margarita 55
Alexander Gershkovich
The Taganka: Russian Political Theater, 1968-84 79
Herman Ermolaev
The Theme of Terrorism in Starik 96
Julian W. Connolly
Delusions or Clairvoyance?: A Second Look at Madness in V. Nabokov's Fiction 110
John B. Dunlop
Vasilii Aksenov's Novels Ozhog and Ostrov Krym 118
Vladislav Krasnov
Solzhenitsyn's New Avgust chetyrnadtsatogo: A Novel Attempt to Revise History 129
George Tokmakoff
P. A. Stolypin in Solzhenitsyn's Krasnoe koleso: A Historian's View 150
Michael A. Nicholson Soviet Antidotes to Solzhenitsyn's Avgust chetyrnadtsatogo 159
G. S. Smith
Russian Poetry Outside Russia since 1970: A Survey 179
Lev Loseff
Iosif Brodskii's Poetics of Faith 188
Antonin Mesht'an
The Role of National Literature in the Prague Linguistic Circle: Czech Fiction and Roman Jakobson 202
Igor Hajek
Changing Attitudes in Recent Czech Fiction: Towards a Typology of Really Existing Socialism 214
Helena Kosek
The Work of Jaroslav Vejvoda 225
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