Norman Shneidman: 2 books
Russian Literature, 1995-2002
On the Threshold of a New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Writers have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 led Russian society to become polarized...
Russian Literature, 1988-1994
The End of an Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
The collapse of the Soviet Union brought about radical changes in the Russian literary world. With the state's relinquishment of control over literary production, writers acquired freedom of expression and publication. State publishing houses, now self-supporting enterprises, stopped printing money-losing...