Each contribution is followed by a summary. Contents: Joachim T. Baer: Mixail Kuzmin's Lesok: A Rococo Work in the Twentieth Century; Robert L. Belknap: Memory in The Brothers Karamazov; G. Koolemans Beynen: The Slavic Animal Language Tales; Leon T. Blaszczyk: The Mickiewicz Generation and The Classical Heritage: A Contribution to the Study of Polish Neo-Humanism; Evelyn Bristol: Romanticism and Naturalism in the Works of the Russian Futurists; Kenneth N. Brostrom: Ethical Relativism and Absolutism in Anna Karenina; Paul Debreczeny: The Device of Conspicuous Silence in Tolstoj, Čexov, and Faulkner; William B. Edgerton: The Critical Reception Abroad of Tolstoj's What is Art?; Thomas Eekman: Walt Whitman's Role in Slavic Poetry (Late 19th - Early 20th Century); Maurice Friedberg: Yiddish Folklore Motifs in Isaak Babel's Konarmija; Joan Grossman: Dostoevskij and Stendhal's Theory of Happiness; Kenneth E. Harper: Text Progression and Narrative Style; Jane Gary Harris: An Inquiry into the Use of Autobiography as a Stylistic Determinant of the Modernist Aspect of Osip Mandelshtam's Literary Prose; Michael Henry Heim: "Master and Man": "Three Deaths" Redivivus; James M. Holquist: Did Tolstoj Write Novels?; Robert Louis Jackson: Tolstoj's Kreutzer Sonata and Dostoevskij's Notes From the Underground; Ante Kadic: Kranjchevic's Jesus on the Barricades; Andrej Kodzhak: Skazka Pushkina - "Zolotoj petushok"; Willis Konick: The Shock of the Present: Levin's Role in Anna Karenina; Jerzy R. Krzyzanowski: A Paradise Lost?: The Image of Kresy in Contemporary Polish Literature; Nicholas Lee: Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of L. N. Tolstoj; Robert E. McMaster: No Peace Without War -- Tolstoj's War and Peace as Cultural Criticism; Vladimir Markov: K voprosu o granicax dekadansa v russkoj poezii (i o liricheskoj poeme); John Mersereau, Jr.: Thackeray, Flaubert, Tolstoy and Psychological Realism; Barbara Heldt Monter: Tolstoj's Path Towards Feminism; Nadine Natov: Structural and Typological Ambivalence of Bulgakov's Novels Interpreted Against the Background of Baxtin's Theory of "Grotesque Realism" and Carnivalization; Marina T. Naumann: Tolstoyan Reflections in Hemingway: War and Peace and For Whom the Bell Tolls; Felix J. Oinas: The Transformation of Folklore into Literature; Tanya Page: A Radishchev Monstrology: The Journey from Petersburg to Moscow and Later Writings in the Light of French Sources; Riccardo Picchio: Principles of Comparative Slavic-Romance Literary History; Nikola Pribic: The Motif of Death in Vladan Desnica's Prose; James P. Scanlan: L. N. Tolstoj as Philosopher of Art Today; Walter Schamschula: The Place of the Old Czech Mastichkár-Fragments Within the Central European Easter Plays; Ewa Thompson: Russian Holy Fools and Shamanism; Ludmilla B. Turkevich: Tolstoj and Galdós: Affinities and Coincidences Reviewed; Wiktor Weintraub: Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski and the Beginning of Polish Baroque Literature; Genrika i Aleksej Jakushev: Struktura xudozhestvennogo obraza u Andreja Platonova; Zoja Jur'eva: Mif ob Orfee v tvorchestve Andreja Belogo, Aleksandra Bloka i Vjacheslava Ivanova.