The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

The following is a partial listing of secondary sources. Dates and locations refer to the editions consulted. In some cases, the year of original publication follows in parentheses.

Allworth, Edward. The Modern Uzbeks. Stanford, 1990.

Amancio, Edson José. “Dostoevsky and Stendhal’s Syndrome,” Academia Brasileira de Neurologia, 63 (4), 2005.

Anemone, Anthony. “The Monsters of Peter the Great: The Culture of the St. Petersburg Kunstkamera in the Eighteenth Century,” Slavic and East European Journal, 44 (4), 2000.

Anisimov, Evgeny. Anna Ioannovna. Moscow, 2002.

Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago, 1998 (1958).

Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, ed. Michael Holquist. Austin, 1982.

Bertensson, Sergei. “The History of Tolstoy’s Posthumous Play,” American Slavic and East European Review, 14 (2), 1955.

Bethea, David M., ed. Puškin Today. Bloomington, 1993.

Chekhov, Anton. Chekhov’s Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary, ed. Simon Karlinsky. Evanston, 1997.

Chertkov, Vladimir. The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy, 1911.

Critchlow, James. Nationalism in Uzbekistan: A Soviet Republic’s Road to Sovereignty. Boulder, 1991.

Derrida, Jacques. Acts of Literature, ed. Derek Attridge. New York, 1992.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Notebooks for The Possessed, ed. Edward Wasiolek. Chicago, 1968.

Eikhenbaum, Boris. Tolstoi in the Seventies. Ann Arbor, 1974 (1960).

Fierman, William. Language Planning and National Development: The Uzbek Experience. Berlin, 1992.

Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things. New York, 2002 (1966).

———. “What Is an Author?” in Paul Rabinow, ed., The Foucault Reader. New York, 1984 (1969).

Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865–1871. Princeton, 1995.

Freidin, Gregory, ed. The Enigma of Isaac Babel: Biography, History, Context. Stanford, 2009.

———. “Isaac Babel,” in George Slade, ed., European Writers: The Twentieth Century. New York, 1990.

Girard, René. Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure. Baltimore, 1976 (1961).

———. Violence and the Sacred. Baltimore, 1993 (1979).

Golburt, Luba. “The Historical Novel and the Versimilitude of Attractions” (unpublished dissertation chapter). Stanford, 2006.

Goldner, Orville, and George Turner. The Making of King Kong. South Brunswick, 1985.

Greenleaf, Monika. Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony. Stanford, 1994.

Grenoble, Lenore A. Language Policy in the Soviet Union. Dordrecht, 2003.

Iampolski, Mikhail, and Alexander Zholkovsky. /Babel. Moscow, 1994.

Leatherbarrow, W. J. “Misreading Myshkin and Stavrogin: The Presentation of the Hero in Dostoevskii’s Idiot and Besy,” Slavonic and East European Review, 78 (1), 2000.

Mandelker, Amy. Framing Anna Karenina. Columbus, 1993.

Mandelstam, Nadezhda. Hope Against Hope. New York, 1970.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Commentary to Eugene Onegin. Princeton, 1964.

Pelham, Brett W., et al. “Why Susie Sells Seashells by the Seashore: Implicit Egotism and Major Life Decisions,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85 (5), 2002.

Pirozhkova, Antonina. At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel. South Royalton, 1996.

Pogosian, Elena. “Svad’ba shutov v Ledianom dome kak fakt ofitsial’noi kul’tury,” Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 15, 2001.

Povartsov, Sergei. “Isaak Babel’: Portret na fone Lubianki,” Noprosy literatury, 3, 1994.

Rayfield, Donald. Anton Chekhov. New York, 1998.

Reyfman, Irina. Vasilii Trediakovsky: The Fool of the “New” Russian Literature. Stanford, 1991.

Robb, Graham. Balzac: A Biography. New York, 1996.

Scheler, Max. Person and Self-Value: Three Essays, ed. M. S. Frings. Dordrecht, 1987.

Shklovsky, Viktor. The Knight’s Move. Normal, 2005 (1923).

———. The Theory of Prose. Normal, 1990 (1925).

Siddiqi, Asif A. “Imagining the Cosmos: Utopians, Mystics, and the Popular Culture of Spaceflight in Revolutionary Russia,” Osiris, 23 (1), 2008.

Thackston, Wheeler M. Preface to The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. New York, 2002.

Troyat, Henri. Tolstoy. New York, 2001 (1965).

Volkov, Solomon. St. Petersburg: A Cultural History. New York, 1995.

Wachtel, Andrew. “Resurrection à la Russe: Tolstoy’s The Living Corpse as Cultural Paradigm,” PMLA, 107 (2), 1992.

Zholkovsky, Alexander. “How a Russian Maupassant Was Made in Odessa and Yasnaya Polyana: Isaak Babel’ and the Tolstoy Legacy,” Slavic Review, 53 (33), 1994.