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"A distinguished scholar and critic traces the evolution of Russian literature from the folk epics of the Middle Ages to the Soviet writings of the present day. . .Slonim analyzes the influence of the major writers on the world of literature and shows how their work reflected and shaped the political and social temper of the time." Includes analyses of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, Gorky, Mayakovsky, Sholokhov and Pasternak. |
