A new executive order from Vladimir Putin affirms the foundations of Russia’s state language policy, pledging to “preserve, ...

The timing of much Russian literature — of Pushkin or Tolstoy — is perfect; but it is not like the timing of a well-made French play, where the proportions, the relations, and the development ...

In the beginning of the same month, Putin urged to "consistently get rid of vulgar and mechanical foreign borrowings, which ...

Launched to promote Russian literature on the global stage during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the new Dar (“Gift”) literary prize is already mired in controversy — and not ...

Russian literature could not prevent the Gulags, but it did help prisoners survive them. The Russian state has no use for Russian culture unless it can be made to serve the state.

But this is not surprising to readers of 19th-century Russian Slavophile literature, or to the readers of the 19th-century Ukrainian literature that passionately opposed it in the name of truth ...

During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

Russian Language and Literature Track I. Intended for students with no prior knowledge of Russian. A. ECS 100a (European Cultural Studies: The Proseminar) to be completed no later than the junior year ...

So in Sorokin’s work the “malenky chelovek,” the small man of Russian literature, has become even smaller. Now he fits on a dish, drinks out of a thimble, but swears like a trooper.

And really, accusing Russian literature of being “depressing” is as unfair as fat-shaming a woman. For one thing, fat-shaming won’t make anyone skinnier. It’s not a crime, it’s a choice.

When another inmate was hassling Justice Green recently, Green didn’t hit him. Instead, he tossed him the 19th-century Russian literature story he was reading at the time and said: Come back to ...