Tadeusz Miczka

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Cinema as Optic Poetry: On Attempts to Futurize the Cinematograph in Poland of the 1920s and 1930s

Nina Kolesnikoff

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Leonard G. Friesen

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Toward a Market Economy: Fruit and Vegetable Production by the Peasants of New Russia, 1850–1900

Cynthia Simmons

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Lifting the Siege: Women’s Voices on Leningrad (1941–1944)

Marek Haltof

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Film Theory in Poland Before World War II

David Lightfoot

79

Perceiving the Fictional World of Nesmrtelnost Through Kundera’s “I”

Rolf Hellebust

91

Metal in the Works of Vasilii Aksenov

Galina Patterson

Nabokov’s Use of Dostoevskii: Developing Goliadkin “Symptoms” in Hermann as a Sign of the Artist’s End

Boris Briker

125

Time, History, and Fairy Tale in Ivan Bunin’s “A Cold Autumn”

REVIEW ARTICLES

Olga E. Glagoleva

137

Still Alive: The Russian Intelligentsia in a Predicament

John J. White

151

Ukrainian Futurism Re-Visited

Veronika Ambros

161

Jana Černá, Kafka’s Milena

J. Douglas Clayton

163

Bernadette Poliwoda, FEKS—Fabrik des exzentrischen Schauspielers: Vom Exzentrismus zur Poetik des Films in der frühen Sowjetkultur

Alexander J. Matejko

164

Christopher G.A. Bryant and Edmund Mokrzycki, eds., Democracy, Civil Society and Pluralism in Comparative Perspective: Poland, Great Britain and The Netherlands

Alison Rowley

166

Natalia Kuziakina, Theatre in the Solovki Prison Camp

Michael Aston

168

M.N. Murav'ev, Institutiones rhetoricæ. A Treatise of a Russian Sentimentalist

Gerald Morgan

170

Frances Nethercott, Une rencontre philosophique: Bergson en Russie (1903–1917)

Thomas J. Hegarty

171

Alan M. Ball, And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918–1930

Robert A. Orr

173

L.V. Knorina, Grammatika, Semantika, Stilistika

Lesley A. Rimmel

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Michael Parrish, The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939–1953

Janet Hyer

178

Barbara Clements, Bolshevik Women

Alison Rowley

179

Kazimiera J. Cottam, ed. and trans., Women in Air War: The Eastern Front of World War II

Robert E. Johnson

180

Diane P. Koenker and Ronald D. Bachman, eds., Revelations from the Russian Archives: Documents in English Translation

Susan Ingram

182

Constantin V. Ponomareff, The Spiritual Geography of Modern Writing: Essays on Dehumanization, Human Isolation and Transcendence

J. Guy Lalande

183

Ruth AmEnde Roosa, Russian Industrialists in an Era of Revolution: The Association of Industry and Trade, 1906–1917

Luc Beaudoin

185

Brett Cooke, Pushkin and the Creative Process

Vol'f Shmid, Proza Pushkina v poeticheskom prochtenii: "Povesti Belkina"

J. Douglas Clayton

186

Andrew Wachtel, ed., Petrushka: Sources and Contexts

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