About the Author

Victor Erlich is a distinguished literary critic and the Bensinger Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature at Yale University. He is the author of several books including Modernism and Revolution: Russian Literature in Transition (Harvard, 1994) and the much praised Russian Formalism: History and Doctrine (Yale, 1981).

Reviews

"Victor Erlich has added magnificently to our sense of what once was, and will never be again." --Forward

Set forth in lively prose, [it] greatly enhances our understanding and adds significantly to the annals of recent history. --Buffalo Jewish Review