Now that the political rhetoric can end, Erlich (Russian literature, Yale U.) examines the impact of the 1917 revolution on Russian poetry, criticism, and artistic prose. He looks at the flirtations with modernism of the early 20th century and compares the futurists, formalists, novelists, and short-story writers of the first decade of the new social and political order. Assumes no knowledge of Russian. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Through a compilation of foreign policy documents and statements, harnessed together by a section of analytic works, this book seeks to highlight the shift in Russian foreign policy at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This compilation presents the work of formative scholars in this field who are concerned with the evolution of Russia Foreign policy thinking and behavior. This volume compiles critical documents and statements (treaties, addresses and articles) that deal with the formation of new conceptions of security in the New World order. The articles critically evaluate the implications of these new initiatives and lend insight to these documents and statements in practice. They address a wide range of topics from the crisis in Kosovo to domestic Russian policy, with an eye to the future of Russian policy.

Russian history is first and foremost a history of personalized power. As Russia startles the international community with its assertiveness and faces both parliamentary and presidential elections, Lilia Shevtsova searches the histories of the Yeltsin and Putin regimes. She explores within them conventional truths and myths about Russia, paradoxes of Russian political development, and Russia's role in the world. Russia--Lost in Transition discovers a logic of government in Russia--a political regime and the type of capitalism that were formulated during the Yeltsin and Putin presidencies and will continue to dominate Russia's trajectory in the near term. Looking forward as well as back, Shevtsova speculates about the upcoming elections as well as the self-perpetuating system in place--the legacies of Yeltsin and Putin--and how it will dictate the immediate political future. She also explores several scenarios for Russia's future over the next decade.

B. Capital Requirements -- C. Machinery -- D. Labor -- E. Management -- 1. The Organization Of Industry -- 2. Lack Of Experience -- 3. Lack Of Engineers -- 4. Training Of Russian Engineers -- 5. Attitude Toward Bourgeois Engineers -- a. Conciliation of Bourgeois Engineers -- b. Reasons for Reversal of Attitude -- c. Results of the New Policy -- 6. Penalties vs. Initiative -- 7. Foreign Technical AID -- a. Benefits -- b. Difficulties -- c. Remedies Proposed -- d. Suspension -- F. Foreign Contracts -- 1. American Corporation Contracts -- 2. Magnitogorsk Steel Plant -- 3. Foreign Concessions -- 4. Contracts With Individuals -- 5. Comments And Recommendations Of Foreign Engineers -- G. Scientific Management Or Rationalization -- 1. Methods -- 2. Establishment Of Wage Rates -- a. Piece Work and Bonuses -- b. Errors in Rate Making -- 3. Trade-Union Attitude -- 4. The Five-Day Week -- a. Theory -- b. Practice -- c. Stalin's Views -- d. Abandonment of the Five-Day Week -- 5. Automatic Devices -- 6. Lack Of An Efficient Spirit -- 7. Poor Planning And Inadequate Routing -- 8. Typical Situations -- a. Stalingrad Tractor Plant -- b. Magnitogorsk Steel Plant -- c. Rostov Agricultural Machinery Plant -- d. Nizhni Novgorod Automobile Plant -- e. Electric Power Plants -- f. The "Giant Plants" Don't Work! -- 9. Remedies -- a. Reduce Investigations -- b. "Towing" by "Shock Brigades" -- c. Management by Government Fiat -- d. Restoration of Small Industry -- e. Recommendations of American Engineers -- H. High Cost Of Production -- 1. Breakdown Of Machinery -- I. Quality Of Production -- 1. The Facts -- 2. Causes Of Poor Quality -- 3. Results -- 4. Remedies -- J. Accounting System -- 1. Income Accounts -- 2. Distribution Of Industrial Profits -- K. Capitalistic Aspects -- L. Remedies -- 1. Decentralization -- 2. Highly Paid Executives -- 3. Foreign AID.

Russia’s Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia’s industrial revolution. During Russia’s first tumultuous transition to capitalism, social problems became issues of literary form for writers trying to make sense of economic change. The new environments created by industry, such as giant factories and mills, demanded some kind of response from writers but defied all existing forms of language. This book recovers the rich and lively public discourse of this volatile historical period, which Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov transformed into some of the world’s greatest works of literature. Russia’s Capitalist Realism will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth‐century Russian literature and history, the relationship between capitalism and literary form, and theories of the novel.

An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literature and additional bibliographical information. The individual chapters are by well-known specialists, and provide chronological coverage from the medieval period on, giving particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and including extensive discussion of works written outside the Soviet Union. The book is accessible to students and non-specialists, as well as to scholars of literature, and provides a wealth of information.

The End of Russian Philosophy describes and evaluates the troubled state of Russian philosophical thought in the post-Soviet decades. The book suggests that in order to revive philosophy as a universal, professional discipline in Russia, it may be necessary for Russian philosophy to first do away with the messianic traditions of the 19th century.