Contents: Lauren G. Leighton: Introduction; Part I: The Nineteenth Century. Gary Rosenshield: Artistic Consistency in Notes from the Underground -- Part One; Lauren G. Leighton: Denis Davydov and War and Peace; Gary R. Jahn: The Death of Ivan Il'ich -- Chapter One; Sigmund S. Birkenmayer: Polish Themes in the Poetry of Nekrasov; Leonard A. Polakiewicz: Crime and Punishment in äexov; Part II: Modernism. Pierre R. Hart: Functions of the Fairy Tale in Sologub's Prose; Linda J. Ivanits: Fairy Tale Motifs in Sologub's "Dreams on the Rocks"; David R. Schaffer: The Religious Component of Russian Symbolism; Part III: Art, Poetics, Cinema, Drama. Juliette Stapanian: Majakovskij's "Street-" and an "Alogical" Cubo-Futurist Painting by Malevic; Anthony J. Hartman: The Metrical Typology of Anna Axmatova; Hari S. Rorlich: In Search of Continuity: Russian and Soviet Silent Films; Edward J. Czerwinski: Witkacy and Szajna: Prelude to and Requiem for the Holocaust; Part IV: The Soviet Period. George Gutsche: The Role of the "One" in Gor'kij's "Twenty-Six and One"; John Schillinger: From Socialist Realism to Solzhenitsynism; Gerald E. Mikkelson: Religious Symbolism in Valentin Rasputin's Tale Live and Remember; Barbara Herring: Xenia Gasiorowska: Publications.

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