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Table of Contents:
  • Critical models, committed readers, and three Russian ideas
  • Heroes and their plots
  • Traditional narratives
  • Western eyes on Russian realities : the eighteenth century
  • The astonishing nineteenth century : romanticisms
  • Realisms : Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov
  • Symbolist and modernist world-building : three cities, three novels, and the devil
  • The Stalin years : socialist realism, anti-fascist fairy tales, wilderness
  • Coming to terms and seeking new terms : from the first Thaw (1956) to the end of the millennium.