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The Soul of the Russian (Classic Reprint)

Author : Marjorie Lethbridge
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267156689
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of the Russian (Classic Reprint) written by Marjorie Lethbridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Soul of the Russian N spite of the war, and in spite of the friendship between Russia and England, a friendship becoming more firmly ce mented every day, there are still a great many people to whom our Slav ally remains merely a name. True, books in plenty have recently dealt with that country in many varying forms, but, in the main, they have consisted either of consecutive narrative requiring steady reading, or have been serious works making appeal chieﬂy to the student. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Reflections on the Russian Soul

Author : Dmitry S. Likhachev
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633864925
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on the Russian Soul written by Dmitry S. Likhachev and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling and often traumatic book is the memoir of one of the most important figures in modern Russian history, Dmitry S. Likhachev, revered as ‘a guardian of national culture’. Reflections on the Russian Soul is an incredible account of an intellectual’s turbulent journey through twentieth century Russia. Likhachev re-counts the fortunes of people with whom he came into contact and reproduces the air of passed years in Russia. Likhachev vividly portrays his childhood years in St. Petersburg and continues into his student life at Leningrad University that led to an agonizing period of imprisonment and near death. He describes how a harmless prank caught the attention of the Secret Police, resulting in his exile and confinement within the infamous prison island of Solovki. He describes his first-hand experience of brutality in prison during the early Stalin years and the incident that not only saved him but also haunted him for the rest of his life. He reflects on the years after his release from prison and the events leading up to the Second World War. His powerful recollection of the blockade of Leningrad provides the reader with a horrific insight into the harsh effects of war, hunger and survival. Lichachev goes on to describe post-war Russia and how his own livelihood developed from literary editor to a return to Leningrad University as Professor of History. This compelling autobiography finishes with Likhachev’s poignant return to Solovki as a free man.

The Soul of the Russian Revolution (Classic Reprint)

Author : Moissaye Joseph Olgin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282335885
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of the Russian Revolution (Classic Reprint) written by Moissaye Joseph Olgin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Soul of the Russian Revolution The task is colossal. Scientific and artistic work of generations will be required to complete it. Not even in the Russian language have the various phases of the revo lution been given adequate study. Many a field, such as the reﬂection of the revolution in Russian belles Iettres, to which parts of this book are devoted, have not hitherto been investigated at all. Moreover, the work of a Russian writing in English is greatly embarrassed by the consciousness of the fact that the Russian char acter and Russian history are little familiar on this side of the Atlantic. Under such circumstances, the present work can be only a review of the great movement in its most significant manifestations, and an attempt to convey to the American reader a better understanding of the character, the motives and the aspirations of the various parts of the Russian nation engaged in the revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Soul of Pierre (Classic Reprint)

Author : George Ohnet
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331584421
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Pierre (Classic Reprint) written by George Ohnet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Soul of Pierre This response to the Russian doctor's ques tion, which seemed to promise a lengthy dis cussion, was succeeded among the men and women who had just finished dining in the salon of the Hotel de Paris, on the terrace at Monte Carlo, by a moment of stupefied silence. Around the table, sumptuously laid, and on which the ﬂowers were dying, asphyxiated in the heat Of the lights and' the smoke of the cigarettes, glances of astonishment and ennui were interchanged. Then a storm of remon strances and exclamations - the indignant pro test of these worldly people, compelled to abandon for a moment the habitual frivolity of their discourse to listen to the dry details of a scientific discussion, broke forth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Soul

Author : Andrey Platonov
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590172544
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Soul written by Andrey Platonov and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Books Original The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov’s vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most profoundly registered the spiritual shock of revolution. For a new generation of innovative post-Soviet Russian writers he figures as a daring explorer of word and world, the master of what has been called “alternative realism.” Depicting a devastated world that is both terrifying and sublime, Platonov is, without doubt, a universal writer who is as solitary and haunting as Kafka. This volume gathers eight works that show Platonov at his tenderest, warmest, and subtlest. Among them are “The Return,” about an officer’s difficult homecoming at the end of World War II, described by Penelope Fitzgerald as one of “three great works of Russian literature of the millennium”; “The River Potudan,” a moving account of a troubled marriage; and the title novella, the extraordinary tale of a young man unexpectedly transformed by his return to his Asian birthplace, where he finds his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech. This prizewinning English translation is the first to be based on the newly available uncensored texts of Platonov’s short fiction.

Who Can Be Happy, and Free in Russia? (Classic Reprint)

Author : Nicholas Nekrassov
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331316087
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Who Can Be Happy, and Free in Russia? (Classic Reprint) written by Nicholas Nekrassov and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Who Can Be Happy, and Free in Russia? There are few literate persons in Russia who do not know whole pages Of this poem by heart. It will live as long as Russian literature exists; and its artistic value as an instrument for the depiction Of Russian nature and the soul Of the Russian people can be compared only with that Of the great epics Of Homer with regard to the legendary life Of ancient Greece. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

On the Eve

Author : Constance Garnett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528446242
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book On the Eve written by Constance Garnett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Eve: Translated From the Russian This exquisite novel, first published in 1859, like so many great works of art, holds depths of meaning which at first sight lie veiled under the simplicity and harmony of the technique. To the English reader On Me E w is a charm ingly drawn picture of a quiet Russian house hold, with a delicate analysis of a young girl's soul; but to Russians it is also a deep and penetrating diagnosis of the destinies of the Russia of the fifties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Shield (Classic Reprint)

Author : Maksim Gorky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330663462
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book The Shield (Classic Reprint) written by Maksim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Shield This is not merely a book about the Russian Jews. It is a marvellous revelation of the Russian soul. It shows not only that the overwhelming majority of the Russian intellectuals, including nearly all of her brilliant literary geniuses, are opposed to the persecution of the Jews or any other race, but that they have a capacity for sympathy and understanding of humanity unequalled in any other land. Ui do not know of any book where the genius and heart of Russia is better displayed. Not only her leading litterateurs but also her leading statesmen and economists are represented - and all of them speak as with a single voice. I am writing on the 16th of March. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Pale Horse (Classic Reprint)

Author : B. V. Savinkov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331020875
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Pale Horse (Classic Reprint) written by B. V. Savinkov and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pale Horse The soul of Russia is revealed even more in her literature than in the realities of her life. If her activities are handicapped in many ways, her spirit lives in a sort of Utopian Freeland, where it is concerned only with problems of spiritual law and spiritual obligations. Russian novels - certainly the best of them - express this spirit, and are for that reason 'human documents' of great intensity. Each epoch of Russia's spiritual life is expressed in a few books of a highly imaginative character. Among those literary works which illuminate with a rare light the period just before the war, the problems which had to be faced by the heroic will and the mystic tendencies of a tragically unbalanced generation, Ropshin's Pale Horse ranks as one of the most characteristic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Slave Soul of Russia

Author : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814774822
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Slave Soul of Russia written by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing humility as the mother of virtues, the trauma of the Bolshevik revolution, the current economic upheavals wracking the country-- these are only a few of the symptoms of what The Slave Soul of Russia identifies as a veritable cult of suffering that has been centuries in the making. Bringing to light dozens of examples of self-defeating activities and behaviors that have become an integral component of the Russian psyche, Rancour-Laferriere convincingly illustrates how masochism has become a fact of everyday life in Russia. Until now, much attention has been paid to the psychology of Russia's leaders and their impact on the country's condition. Here, for the first time, is a compelling portrait of the Russian people's psychology.

What Pierre Did With His Soul (Classic Reprint)

Author : Georges Ohnet
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267686827
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book What Pierre Did With His Soul (Classic Reprint) written by Georges Ohnet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from What Pierre Did With His Soul The Russian threw away his cigarette, lighted another one, and looking upon his three listeners with an air of authority, went on with the tale that had been cut short by the interruptions of the guests who had now departed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Up from Bondage

Author : Dale E. Peterson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822325604
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Up from Bondage written by Dale E. Peterson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic comparison of the emergence of cultural nationalism among Russian and African-American intellectuals in the post-emancipation era.

The Soul of Russia

Author : Winifred Stephens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104506117
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Russia written by Winifred Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Russia's Unfinished Revolution

Author : Michael McFaul
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801439001
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Russia's Unfinished Revolution written by Michael McFaul and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural predisposition for authoritarian leaders. Yet, as a result of reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, new political institutions have emerged that now require election of political leaders and rule by constitutional procedures. Michael McFaul—described by the New York Times as "one of the leading Russia experts in the United States"—traces Russia's tumultuous political history from Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985 through the 1999 resignation of Boris Yeltsin in favor of Vladimir Putin. McFaul divides his account of the post-Soviet country into three periods: the Gorbachev era (1985-1991), the First Russian Republic (1991–1993), and the Second Russian Republic (1993–present). The first two were, he believes, failures—failed institutional emergence or failed transitions to democracy. By contrast, new democratic institutions did emerge in the third era, though not the institutions of a liberal democracy. McFaul contends that any explanation for Russia's successes in shifting to democracy must also account for its failures. The Russian/Soviet case, he says, reveals the importance of forging social pacts; the efforts of Russian elites to form alliances failed, leading to two violent confrontations and a protracted transition from communism to democracy. McFaul spent a great deal of time in Moscow in the 1990s and witnessed firsthand many of the events he describes. This experience, combined with frequent visits since and unparalleled access to senior Russian policymakers and politicians, has resulted in an astonishingly well-informed account. Russia's Unfinished Revolution is a comprehensive history of Russia during this crucial period.

Russia of To-Day (Classic Reprint)

Author : John Foster Fraser
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656530540
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Russia of To-Day (Classic Reprint) written by John Foster Fraser and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russia of to-Day Petrograd is the head of Russia, and Moscow is the heart of it. But the soul of Russia spreadeth throughout the land and is not to be measured. Russia is Russia. That is not a cheap truism. It is one of those big facts that the foreigner does not Often remember. For he goes to the country soaked with his British and other prejudices, stuffed with conceit that he and his race own the ark Of righteousness and, when he finds other people doing things in a way different from his own, he concludes the other people must be wrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Possessed

Author : Elif Batuman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 142993641X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Possessed written by Elif Batuman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted—Absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully!—to the Russian Classics. No one who read Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac Babel. Over the course of several pages, Batuman managed to misplace Babel's last living relatives at the San Francisco airport, uncover Babel's secret influence on the making of King Kong, and introduce her readers to a new voice that was unpredictable, comic, humane, ironic, charming, poignant, and completely, unpretentiously full of love for literature. Batuman's subsequent pieces—for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the London Review of Books— have made her one of the most sought-after and admired writers of her generation, and its best traveling companion. In The Possessed we watch her investigate a possible murder at Tolstoy's ancestral estate. We go with her to Stanford, Switzerland, and St. Petersburg; retrace Pushkin's wanderings in the Caucasus; learn why Old Uzbek has one hundred different words for crying; and see an eighteenth-century ice palace reconstructed on the Neva. Love and the novel, the individual in history, the existential plight of the graduate student: all find their place in The Possessed. Literally and metaphorically following the footsteps of her favorite authors, Batuman searches for the answers to the big questions in the details of lived experience, combining fresh readings of the great Russians, from Pushkin to Platonov, with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence—including her own.

Russia and Soul

Author : Dale Pesmen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729381
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Russia and Soul written by Dale Pesmen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography of everyday life in contemporary Russia is also an examination of discourses and practices of "soul" or dusha. Russian soul has historically appeared as a myth, a consoling fiction, and a trope of national and individual self-definition that drew romantic foreigners to Russia. Dale Pesmen shows that in the 1990s this "soul" was scorned, worshipped, and used to create, manipulate, and exploit cultural capital. Pesmen focuses on "soul" in part as what people chose to do and how they did it, especially practices considered "definitive" of Russians, such as hospitality, the use of alcoholic beverages, steam baths, Russian language, music, and suffering. Attempting to avoid narrow definitions of soul as a thing, Pesmen developed a new way of structuring ethnographic interviews.During her stay in a formerly "closed" military industrial city and surrounding villages, Pesmen spent time on public transportation and in kitchens, steam baths, vegetable gardens, shops, and workplaces. She uses stories from her fieldwork along with examples from the media and literature to introduce a phenomenology of russkaia dusha and of related American and other non-Russian metaphysical notions, exploring diverse elements in their makeup, examining and questioning the world created when people believe in the existence of such "deep," "vast," "enigmatic," "internal" centers. Among theoretical issues she addresses are those of power, community, self, exchange, coherence, and morality. Pesmen's attention to dusha gives her a multifaceted perspective on Russian culture and society and informs her rich portrayal of life in a Russian city at a historically critical moment.