This is the only volume in English that attempts to deal thoroughly with modern Russian literature—from Chekhov and Gorky to Solzhenitsyn and his contem­poraries.

 

Moore and Parry discuss the most sig­nificant phases of twentieth-century Rus­sian literature—novels, dramas, poems, and films—but they also focus on all forms of communication, including news­papers printed by hidden presses and for­bidden books by Russian and foreign au­thors. Everyone and everything of im­portance is illuminated in this compre­hensive survey. Many writers are compel­lingly presented, and their lives and works viewed in the context of violent social and intellectual change.