Contents: Ewa M. Thompson, V. B. Shklovskii and the Russian Intellectual Tradition; J. J. van Baak, On the "Inconclusiveness" of World-Pictures in Russian Avant-Garde Prose; Efraim Sicher, The "Color" of Judaism: Timespace Oppositions in the Synaesthesia of Osip Mandel'shtam's Shum vremeni; R. L. Busch, The Contexts of Bulgakov's Master i Margarita; Alexander Gershkovich, The Taganka: Russian Political Theater, 1968-84; Herman Ermolaev, The Theme of Terrorism in Starik; Julian W. Connolly, Delusions or Clairvoyance?: A Second Look at Madness in V. Nabokov's Fiction; John B. Dunlop, Vasilii Aksenov's Novels Ozhog and Ostrov Krym; Vladislav Krasnov, Solzhenitsyn's New Avgust chetyrnadtsatogo: A Novel Attempt to Revise History; George Tokmakoff, P. A. Stolypin in Solzhenitsyn's Krasnoe koleso: A Historian's View; Michael A. Nicholson, Soviet Antidotes to Solzhenitsyn's Avgust chetyrnadtsatogo; G. S. Smith, Russian Poetry Outside Russia since 1970: A Survey; Lev Loseff, Iosif Brodskii's Poetics of Faith; Antonin Mesht'an, The Role of National Literature in the Prague Linguistic Circle: Czech Fiction and Roman Jakobson; Igor Hajek, Changing Attitudes in Recent Czech Fiction: Towards a Typology of Really Existing Socialism; Helena Kosek,The Work of Jaroslav Vejvoda.

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