...Steven S. Lee In June 1932, Langston Hughes and twenty-one other African Americans traveled to Moscow to make a movie. Set in the contemporary U.S. South, Black and White was to have exposed Jim Crow to the world, but soon after Hughes and his companions arrived the project was cancelled — due...

... that the poem's idiosyncratic form indicates that Pushkin was not yet sure whether he was standing on the threshold of an Augustan or Neronian age. Pushkin's acquaintances among Moscow Slavophiles made him for the time being more attentive to the positive parallels between Russian and Roman history than...

... it as a straightforward, culturally reactionary “anti-anarchist romance,” and thereby precluding other, more politicized, readings. By staging a creative betrayal of the novel in 1920s Moscow, Tairov and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, who was commissioned to write the script, reactivate certain elements of the work obscured...

... accounts, while correct in debunking the myth of Upward's slavishness to Moscow, erase the crucial comparative frame through which his work must be understood. Reading Upward's writing of the 1930s alongside Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, and socialist realists such as Fyodor Gladkov and Alexander Fadeev...

... by Moscow but a horizontal network shaped by powerful cultural allegiances that were not easily overcome. 28 As Mufti notes, “Faiz problematizes the very notion of nation or people, raising fundamental questions about identity and subjectivity and their historical determinations” (213). 29...

... that when Langston Hughes translated Vladimir Mayakovsky's “Blek end uait” (“Black and White”) and “Sifilis” (“Syphilis”) during his Moscow residence in the winter of 1932–33, a resulting epiphany motivated Hughes to strive to reconcile his Pan-Africanist views with his newly aroused vision of class...

... a more nuanced understanding of the Moscow-centered transnational literary space produced in the aftermath of the Bolshevik revolution, or what scholars in Slavic studies have called the “Soviet republic of letters.” 40 I described the demand for historical fiction earlier in this essay. In her...

... audiences. Even if marginalized in the cultural establishments of Moscow and Leningrad, they suddenly became hypervisible as living embodiments of an internal “friendship of the peoples” that would serve as the template for a future worldwide collective. The proximity of the “Soviet East” to the global...

... a more cynical environment. They mimic the structure of an ethnopolitical joke: an Albanian, an Egyptian, and a Ukrainian walk into Soviet internationalism. Residing at the Gorky Institute for World Literature or the VGIK film school in Moscow, their autobiographical protagonists represent three...

... University Press, 2000 . 23 -57. Bely, Andrei. Evangelie kak drama . Moscow: Russkii dvor, 1996 . Bograd, Ganna. “Funkstii proizvedenii izobrazitel'nogo iskusstva v tvorchestve Dostoevskogo.” Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the USA 28 ( 1996 -1997): 313 -52...

...HARSHA RAM University of Oregon 2007 Abuashvili, Aida. Za strokoi liriki . Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1989 . Baratashvili, Nik'oloz. Tkhzulebani . Tbilisi: Sabch'ota Sakartvelo, 1968 . Barnes, Christopher. Boris Pasternak. A Literary Biography. Volume 2: 1928-1960 . Cambridge...

... conglomerate of national republics, and the abolishment of the Pale did not rid Jews of their attraction to urban centers. In fact, by 1959 ninety-five percent of the Jews across the USSR lived in cities, par- ticularly Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev (Barnai 136). This preference remained consistent...

... Different Years]. Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura , 1975 . 72 -233. Baran, Henryk. “Structuralism and Semiotics.” Handbook of Russian Literature . Ed. Victor Terras. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985 . 448 -51. Clark, Katerina, and Michael Holquist. Mikhail Bakhtin . Cambridge...

... with decolonization across the global south and the civil rights movement in the US. And after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a similarly expansive ambition has animated the reactionary worldbuilding of a new Eurasian global order extending from Moscow to China across the former Soviet territories...

... ” (“On the Poet’s Calling”). In Sobranie sochinenii v vos’mi tomakh , vol. 6 , edited by Orlova V. N. , Surkova A. A. , and Chukovskogo K. I. , 160 – 68 . Moscow : Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury , 1962 . Blok Aleksandr . “ Znaiu ia tvoie l’stivoe imia...

... . “The Ideal Woman in Tolstoi: Resurrection.” Canadian-American Slavic Studies 11 . 2 ( 1977 ): 281 – 86 . Print . Gol'denveizer A.B. Vblizi Tolstogo . Moscow : Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury , 1959 . Print . Gusev N.N. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi...

... lived in Stalin’s Moscow for two months in 1926, where he penned his “Moscow Diary” and was rumored to have met Platonov and other Soviet authors. Even so, the relationship between subject and object underscored by Freud, as well as object-loss inherent in melancholy, are still of importance. I am...

...- tives to consigning the extraordinary interchange between revolutionary vanguard, aes- thetic avant-garde, and ethnic minority cultures that orbited globally around Moscow in the 1920s and 1930s to a rise-and-fall narrative that ends with Stalinist terror in the U.S.S.R. and cold war McCarthyism...

... / Другой властитель наших дум”; Another genius has sped away / Another sovereign of our thoughts), as figures who were romantically heroized, but while Byron represents the apex of what Decembrists thought a poet could be, Napoleon, whose 1812 invasion resulted in the destruction of Moscow, figured...

... on Tolstoy’s creative process.3 Let us review eight empirical facts germane to this process. To begin, The Cos- sacks was inspired by the Caucasus itself, and the resulting three and a half chap- ters were later added to in Moscow, Paris (where they got entangled in Tolstoy’s horror at a guillotining...