A genre of classical ballet, Soviet drama-ballet is viewed and understood as a product of 1930s Stalinist culture. Its role has been diminished in prior …
This dissertation examines the cases of contact between Russian and Czech culture using a constructivist approach to nationalism, and demonstrates the role of individual personalities …
This dissertation analyses the rehabilitation of the Russian Empire’s belle epoque, c.1905-1917, in Putin’s Russia. Engaging with the canon of memory studies, I create a …
My dissertation examines the critical and scholarly reception of the influence of Nikolai Gogol on the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky from the mid-nineteenth century to …
What is the significance of the poetic riddle in eighteenth-century Russia? The first Russian poetic riddle appeared in 1755. In this study, the evolution of …
This study revisits a well-known, but long-ignored Russian literary type—the so-called “superfluous man”—who emerges out of Russia’s growing pains in response to the French Revolution, …
Bringing to the discussion unreprinted and uncollected articles and essays of Vladislav Khodasevich, in addition to the existing editions of his literary criticism, this dissertation …
