The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature

xContents

5The astonishing nineteenth century:

Romanticisms99

Pushkin and honor101

Duels108

Gogol and embarrassment114

Pretendership118

6Realisms: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov125

Biographies of events, and biographies that

are quests for the Word129

Time-spaces (Dostoevsky and Tolstoy)134

Dostoevsky and books146

Tolstoy and doing without words148

Poets and novelists (Dostoevsky and

Nekrasov)153

Anton Chekhov: lesser expectations, smaller

forms156

7Symbolist and Modernist world-building:

three cities, three novels, and the Devil166

The fin de sie`cle: Solovyov, Nietzsche,

Einstein, Pavlov’s dogs, political terrorism168

Modernist time-spaces and their modes of

disruption171

City myths: Petersburg, Moscow, OneState179

8The Stalin years: socialist realism,

anti-fascist fairy tales, wilderness191

What was socialist realism?198

Cement and construction (Fyodor

Gladkov)203

The Dragon and destruction (Evgeny

Shvarts)207

Andrei Platonov and suspension211

The “righttothe lyric”inanAgeofIron217