General Editor's Introduction - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - The Crisis of Soviet Artistic Mentality in the 1960s and 1970s; G.Belaia - The Left Avant-Garde Theatre in the late 1920s; K.Clark - Tolstaian Times: Traversals and Transfers; H.Goscilo - Myth in the Works of Chingiz Aitmatov; N.Kolesnikoff - The Naturalistic Tendency in Contemporary Soviet Fiction: Thematics, Poetics, Functions; K.Kustanovich - Reassessing the Past: Images of Stalin and Stalinism in Contemporary Russian Literature; R.Marsh - Village Prose: Chauvinism, Nationalism or Just Nostalgia?; K.Parth - Brodsky's Poetic Self-Portrait; V.Polukhina - A Matter of (Dis)course: Metafiction in the Works of Daniil Kharms; G.Roberts - Pilate and Pilatism in Recent Russian Literature; M.Ziolkowski - Index
