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It Takes a Village... When there's talk of Russia – and especially of Petersburg – there's talk of contrasts, opposites, contradictions. This theme is a constant in Biely's novel Petersburg. Petersburg is fog, Moscow is sunshine. Moscow…

The Possessed... If you, like the Russian authorities, dislike "the distortion of the images of the Russian peasantry and their social life," in Grigorev's edition of Rasseja, then look to Shchedrovskii's more realistic but much earlier view. This…

Love and Death. Everywhere in the world, Russian ballet = Russian soul. On the eve of World War I Petrograd's avant-garde artistic community revolted against the stuffy, rigid conservatism of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in what one person…

A Raw Youth ... This samovar-table book compiled from material in the Central Lenin Museum in Moscow is chock full of wonderful color as well as black and white plates, facsimiles of party documents, and photographs, with uniformly high-quality…

When Irish Eyes Aren't Smiling. This little pamphlet contains the impressions of an Irish delegation of their six-week tour at invitation of the All-Russian Trade Union Council to investigate conditions in the Soviet Union. A number of days were…

Come on Baba, Light my Fire... The Zhar Ptitsa, or Firebird, is one of the most important of the ex-patriot magazines of art, literature, and dance published in the Russian diaspora after World War I. The title is a no-brainer: it's one of the best…

Coals From Newcastle. Near the end of the 18th century the English replaced the French in Peterborough as the ethnic group to imitate. The English were fewer than the Germans and French and they were almost non-existent in the provinces, that is to…

We've Come a Long Way, Baba. Leningrad, aiming as it was to be a new place in a new time with a new government and society was a natural for the ferment of a literature of science fiction. Strongly influenced by H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, 20th…