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Text: «СТУЧИТ!»: POETICS AND POLITICS ALEXIS KLIMOFF Vassar College The first volume of a Collected Works of Turgenev produced in Moscow in 1874 was prefaced by a note in which the writer itemized the new works included in this edition - an earlier Collected Works had appeared only five years earlier - ending his brief preface with two sentences seemingly calculated to attract attention by the use of italics: Обещанная статья: «Семейство Аксаковых и славянофилы», по некоторым соображениям, в изъяснени

Text: протекторатом пражского Карлова Университета, а затем Русский Педагогический Институт, Русский Коммерческий Институт, Русский Институт Сельскохозяйственной Кооперации и Русское Высшее Училище Техников Путей Сообщения. Для детей школьного возраста были организованы две русских гимназии с приготовительными классами: одна, с интернатом, в Моравской Тржебове, в трех часах езды от Праги, и другая в самой Праге. Обе были организованы по типу русских реальных училищ. Это и многое другое из жизни русско

Text: ствующий о бытии русского ученого, а равно и о том времени, названном «дикой исторической полосой». В.И. Косик Москва * * * Sophiology in Russian Orthodoxy: Solov'ev, Bulgakov, Losskii and Berdiaev. By Mikhail Sergeev. Lewison/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. 231 pp. As a mystical or philosophical concept, "Sophia" has its origins in deep antiquity. The word stands for "wisdom" in Greek, and over the centuries it has appeared in many quasi-personified gu

Text: Inevitability vs. Will: A Theme and its Variations in Solzhenitsyn's August 1914 Alexis Klimoff* In a much-noticed 1972 review of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's August 1914, Mary McCarthy argued that in a paradoxical way this work confirms Leo Tolstoy's notion of history as an elemental and unfathomable force unaffected by individual human effort, despite the rejection of Tolstoyan theories explicitly presented in Solzhenitsyn's text. This is so, the critic asserts, because Solzhen

Text: In the Twilight of an Illusory City: Dostoevsky's "White Nights" Alexis Klimoff* Есть воспоминания, как сны. Есть сны-как воспоминания. Георгий Иванов. Петербургские зимы. The critical literature on Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848) is surprisingly sparse if one seeks much beyond the usual comments on the relevance of this work to the writer's interest in the theme of daydreaming (мечтательство). Apart from the fine general descriptions in MochuFskii and Frank

Text: В МИРЕ КНИГ Herman Ermolaev. Censorship in Soviet Literature, 1917-1991. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 323 pp. It is said that there is nothing really new under the sun, and as a general statement this is no doubt true of Soviet literary censorship. But it is unquestionably also a fact that in terms of scope and ferocity, the Soviet effort to control the written word attained a level without precedent in earlier history. What is more, Glavlit, the agency created by the regime to ca

Text: From Blind Faith to Clear-Eyed Remorse: Remarks on Two Early Works by Solzhenitsyn ALEXIS KLIMOFF Vassar College In a 1989 interview with David Aikman of TIME magazine, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was asked about the evolution of his views, given the fact that he had been an ardent communist in his youth. In his response, the writer summed up his experience as follows: I was brought up by my elders in the Christian tradition, and throughout most of my school years, to the age of about sixteen or seve

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