Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this int

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Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the wester

An overview of the main literary schools, authors and works in modern Russia and the Soviet Union.

Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward