Comedy in Russian dramatic art at the end of XX - the beginning of XXI century. In the center of attention is a comedy and its versions. The textbook includes theoretic part, reviews, information about play writes and plays.

Theme of Money in Russian literature. The examples from Fonvizin, Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky and Chekhov are used.

The author was a Moscow literary critic, historian of Soviet literature, and writer. This book is a collection of articles, essays, feuilletons of the 80-90s, which the author describes in the forward: 'That was a time of hope, many of which, if you look from today, were not destined to come true. And although I never thought that the way out of that monstrous historical impasse into which the...

Proceedings of a conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of V P Grigorev, held the 19th-22nd of May, 2005.

This textbook describes the evolution of the Russian literature from 1960s to 1980s. The first part is about arguments on a hero-figure, the second is about Perestroika in the dramatic arts and theatre, and the third part is about the new names and tendencies.