Table of Contents

Part I: Folkloric Fairy Tales; Introduction: Helena Goscilo; The Frog Princess; The Three Kingdoms; Baba Yaga; Vasilisa the Beautiful; Maria Morevaa; Tale of Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf; The Feather of Finist the Bright Falcon; The Magic Mirror; The Magic Ring; Danila the Luckless; Ilya Muromets and the Dragon; The Maiden Tsar; Part II: Fairy Tales of Socialist Realism; Introduction: Marina Balina; Tele of the Military Secret, Malchish Kibalchish and His Solemn Word; The Golden Key or The Adventures of Buratino (excerpts); The Flower of Seven Colors; The Old Genle Hottabych (excerpts); The Malachite Caskat; Part III: Fairy Tales of Socialist Realism: Critique of Soviet Culture; Introduction: Mark Lipovetsky; Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups; The Dragon (excerpts); Tales of the Troika (excerpts); Before the Cock Crows (excerpts); That Same Munchausen (act I)

About the Author

Marina Balina is a professor of Russian at Illinois Wesleyan University. Her publications include Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style with Nancy Condee and Evgeny Dobrenko (Northwestern, 2000), Soviet Treasure: Culture, Literature, and Film with Evgeny Dobrenko and Jurii Murashov (Akademiheskii project, 2002), and Dictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Writers Since 1980 with Mark Lipovetsky (Gale Group, 2003). Helena Goscilo is UCIS Research Professor of Slavic at the University of Pittsburgh. She has authored and edited more than a dozen volumes, most recently Russian Culture in the 1990s, a special issue of Studies in 20th Century Literature (2000). She is also the editor of Shamara and Other Stories by Svetlana Vasilenko (Northwestern, 2000). Mark Lipovetsky is an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of five books, including Russian Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos (M. E. Sharpe, 1999) and Modern Russian Literature, 1950s-1990s with Naum Leiderman (Academia, 2003).