A NEW HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN EMIGRATION: "RUSSIA ABROAD"

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Russia Abroad: Writers, History, Politics
by John Glad, Foreword by Victor Terras
1999, 736 pages, cloth bound

$59.50 (discount to SEELANGS subscribers)

The ONLY COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN EMIGRE LITERATURE & POLITICS
in any language!

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 Contents

Foreword, Definitions, Tradition, Interaction of Russian Expatriate
Writers with the West

 The Pre-Soviet Period

Origins, Pilgrims, Travelers, Diplomats, Expatriates, The Politicals,
Exile Within the Empire, Moderates, Early Radicals, Future Soviet
Leaders, Religious Dissenters, America: Economic and Religious
Emigration, Alaska, Demographics, Poverty, Journalism, The Jews, Writers

 The Soviet Period

Politics: Political Fragmentation and Dashed Hopes for Intervention, The
Church, The Constitutional Democrats, The Social Revolutionaries, The
Men'sheviks, Monarchism, The Change of Landmarks (Smena vekh) Movement,
Eurasianism, The Mladoross (Young Russian) League, Solidarism, The
"Russian Fascists," "Postrevolutionary" (porevolyutsionnye) Movements,
"The Trust," Emigre Terrorism in Russia, Freemasonry and the Jews, The
Soviet Government and the Emigre Press, Repatriation, Soviet-Emigre
Relations, Statistics

Geography: Gallipoli-Istanbul, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Prague,
Belgrade, Warsaw, Sofia, Riga, Tallinn, Scandinavia, Kovno,
Zuerich-Geneva, Kishinev, Uzhgorod, Harbin, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Sao
Paolo, Jerusalem, British Columbia, San Francisco-Los Angeles, New York,
London, Athens, Rome, Tokyo, Sydney/Melbourne

The Nansen Certificate, Philosophers, Essayists, Critics,
Self-Evaluation: A Mission? Keepers of Culture, "Older" and "Younger"
Generations, Symbolism, The Parisian Note, "Experimenters, "
Independents, The Realists, "Exaggerated Prose," Historical Novelists,
Whimsical Writers, The Publishing Marketplace, Theater, Poverty and
Isolation, Former Tsarist Exiles in Positions of Power, The Approaching
War

 The Second Wave

World War II, The Early Postwar Period, Cynicism, Further Dispersion,
The Late 1940s and 1950s, Composition of the Emigre Community, Political
Groupings, Relations Between First and Second Waves, Geography,
Periodicals and Radio, Shul'gin's Open Letter, Prose Writers, Poets, The
"2 1/2" Wave," The Jewish Struggle for Emigration

 The Third Wave

Russian Jews or Jewish Russians?: A Crisis of Identity, Background, Self
Image, The Soviet Position on Emigration, Deprivation of Citizenship,
Ideology, America, Israel, Germany, Stay Or Go Home? The Mission and
Role of Russian Emigre literature, Assimilation, Attempts at
Soviet-Emigre Literary Detente, The Apolitical Reaction, Publications,
Writers of High Seriousness, The Aesthetes, Creators of Situations and
Ideas, The Natural School Reborn, Poets of High Seriousness,
Light-Hearted Poets, Dissolution of the Empire, Reunification at Last!
The "Near Abroad," Conclusions

 125-page Chronology

 28-page Bibliography

SAMPLE OF 75-PAGE ANNOTATED NAMES LIST:

Bulgakov, Valentin Fedorovich (1886-1966), scholar, memoirist, and prose
writer, personal secretary of Lev Tolstoi,  deported from the Soviet
Union: 1923, returned to Russia in 1949, pp. 178, 534, 537, 539, 552,
561, 571, 585.

REVIEWERS  COMMENTS

"The book is going to be far and away the most comprehensive source of
information on its subject ... the whole is a stupendous achievement and
is nicely rounded off by the end of the USSR." D. Barton Johnson,
University of California at Santa Barbara.

 A remarkably objective presentation of the facts, literary as well as
extra-literary, that make up the vast subject which he has grasped with
insightful erudition. I believe that it will not only serve as an
indispensable source of information, but also promote the general
understanding of the past, the present, and even the future of Russian
literature." Victor Terras, Brown University.

 Among books which are useful not only as a survey of the field, but
also in researching individual authors, Glad s definitely takes first
place,  Wolfgang Kasack, Zeitschrift fuer slavische Philologie.

"This is a fundamental study, detailed, and highly competent." Ivan
Tolstoi, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

 A magnificent addition not only to our scholarship, but to Russian
culture in general!  Laszlo Dienes, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst.

 The first and only comprehensive study of all Russian literature
abroad. Let s hope it appears in Russian,  Boris Khazanov, Novyi
zhurnal.

 A most valuable study, interesting in and of itself; it lays the
groundwork for subsequent research,  Ludmila Foster, Kontinent.

 A serious and deep piece of research, a colossal source of information,
and a powerful stimulus for future researchers,  Valery Golovskoy,
Panorama.

 A very useful overview that surveys the emigration,  Pat Polansky,
Rossiyane v Azii.
  A major study,  Rostislav Polchaninov, Russkij amerikanets.

John Glad is the former Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced
Russian Studies in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
His books include "Literature in Exile" (Duke University Press),
"Conversations in Exile" (English edition: Duke University Press;
Russian edition: "Besedy v izgnanii," Knizhnaya Palata, Moscow), and
"Twentieth Century Russian Poetry" (University of Iowa Press). His
translations of Varlam Shalamov s "Kolyma Tales" (Penguin Modern
Classics) were judged one of the five best translations from any
language in the 1980 American Book Awards.

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