Modernism and Revolution: Russian Literature in Transition

by Victor Erlich

The period before 1917 was a brilliant one for Russian literature, marked by the innovations and experimentation of modernism. With the Bolshevik seizure of power, a parallel process of drastic social innovation and experimentation began. How did revolution in the arts and revolution in society and politics relate to one another? Victor Erlich, an eminent authority on modern Slavic culture, takes up this question in Modernism and Revolution,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674580702
• ISBN13: 9780674580701
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"