Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-260) and index.
Contents
Introduction : anxiety and the Russian Silver Age -- Literature and revolution : the case of Aleksandr Blok -- The Russian Silver Age : its makers and undertakers -- No "room of her own" : Anna Akhmatova's tenure in Soviet culture -- The winged eavesdropper : Kuzmin and Nabokov -- The Silver Age in translation : Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago -- Braving the thaw : Anna Akhmatova in the 1950s and the 1960s -- The apocalypse revisited : Viktor Erofeev's Russian beauty -- Coda : the Silver Age up close -- Appendix: Original Russian texts.