Exotic Moscow Under Western Eyes

This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor'kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between "culture" and "civilization" and the vision of Russia as the...

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Main Author: Irene Masing-Delic (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Academic Studies Press 2009
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