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.

Illustrated with multiple black and white photographs this book reveals the history fo Petrograd's criminalily in 1917-1922. Author provides much of evidence to suggest that the Red Terror came as a result of fighting criminality.

The book represents a collection of memoirs about Lermontov from his family and friends. Many points of view help to recreate the personality of a great poet.

Mass literature of XX century (from Verbitskaia and Artsybashev to Akunin and Marinina). Development and reflection of social problems.

A collection of essays devoted to narrating and comprehension of historic processes.

The author is a well-known literary critic and his book represents a cycle of the sketches showing the dramatic nature of creative destiny of the largest Russian writers, whose peak creativity was during the Soviet era. The author includes examples of their best writings. He includes discussions of Mayakovsky, Babel, Mandelshtam, Akhmatova, Sholokov, Pasternak and others. The book is written...

The dictionary includes words and idioms received the new meanings, the new stylistic accent connected with the Soviet reality or became frequent used in language within 1985-1992. Could be also read as a nostalgic piece of nonfiction.

THE LANGUAGE OF THE RUSSIAN EMIGRANT PRESS (1919-1939). The book reflects results of the research based on a material of the richest foreign archives. It is addressed to experts in the field of language of press, language and culture of Russian abroad and to everyone who is interested in history of the first wave of Russian emigration.

The first volume in the collected works of Mikhail Gorbachev, architect of perestroika.