First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol)

Editor's Note page, Advisers and Contributors, Alphabetical List of Writers and Works, Alphabetical List of Works, Chronological List of Writers, General Reading List, Chronology, Glossary, Introductory Essays, Old Russian Literature, Pre-Revolutionary Russian Theatre, Russian Literature in the 18th Century, Aleksandr Pushkin: From Byron to Shakespeare, The Classic Russian Novel, The Superfluous Man in Russian Literature, Women's Writing in Russia, Russian Literary Theory: From the Formalists to Lotman, Post-Revolutionary Russian Theatre, Experiment and Emigration: Russian Literature, 1917 - 1953, Socialist Realism in Soviet Literature, Thaws, Freezes, and Wakes: Russian Literature, 1953 - 1991, Russian Literature in the Post-Soviet Period, Writers and Works, Title Index, Notes on Advisers and Contributors