An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literature and additional bibliographical information. The individual chapters are by well-known specialists, and provide chronological coverage from the medieval period on, giving particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and including extensive discussion of works written outside the Soviet Union. The book is accessible to students and non-specialists, as well as to scholars of literature, and provides a wealth of information.

• Contains new chapter on latest developments (to Summer 1991), bibliography has been updated, and corrections have been made in other chapters • Narrative structure enables students and browsers to see particular writers and works in their wider context, unlike alphabetically-organised volumes and a good index facilitates the finding of specific information • Lots of book for your money

Contents
Preface; 1. The literature of old Russia, 988–1730 Jostein Bortnes; 2. The eighteenth century: neoclassicism and the Enlightenment 1730–90 Ilya Serman; 3. The transition to the modern age: sentimentalism and preromanticism, 1790–1820 Mark Altshuller; 4. The nineteenth century: romanticism, 1820–40 John Mersereau Jr; 5. The nineteenth century: the natural school and its aftermath, 1840–55 Richard Peace; 6. The nineteenth century: the age of realism, 1855–80 Richard Freeborn; 7. The nineteenth century: between realism and modernism, 1880-95 Julian Connolly; 8. Turn of a century: modernism, 1895–1925 Evelyn Bristol; 9. The twentieth century: the era of socialist realism, 1925–53 Victor Terras; 10. The twentieth century: in search of new ways, 1953–80 Geoffrey Hosking; 11. Russian literature in the 1980s Efim Ethird; Bibliography Charles Moser; Index.