Contents: Olga Tabachnikova: Introduction: Continuity behind Rupture - Russian History as Ideological Narrative: Continuities and Breaks - Olha Chervinska and Aleksandr Sych: Historical Background of Russian Literature - Aleksandr A. Medvedev: Athena versus Gaia: Ideology and Being in Russian Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Prishvin, Andrei Tarkovsky) - Lidia I. Shishkina: Political Terrorism of the Early Twentieth Century in the Context of Russian Cultural Consciousness - Natalia Vinokurova and Olga Tabachnikova: Economic Thought as a Mirror of Cultural Debates: The Ideology of Westernism and Slavophilism in Modern Russia - Ways and Waves of Cultural Development in the Russian Literary Mirror - Olha Chervinska: Rift versus Attraction as the Receptive Motivators of Russian Culture - Sarah Ossipow Cheang: Marina Tsvetaeva's Poetry as an Embodiment of Russian Cultural Dialectic of Rupture and Continuity - Larisa V. Polyakova: Creative Personality as an Indicator and Formula for the Discontinuity/ Continuity of Culture: Yevgeny Zamyatin - Elena Tchougounova-Paulson: «Ah, they'll be driven off to the steppes, my Harlequins...»: Pnin the Wanderer as an Incarnation of Russian
Fin de Siècle
Culture Abroad - Elena V. Glukhova: Cultural Transfer and Continuity: Gothic in the Russian «Estate Text» - Vladimir Golstein: Continuities and Discontinuities of Russian Culture through the Prism of Turgenev's
Fathers and Sons
- From Literature to Performing Arts: Shifts of Cultural Paradigm - Galima Lukina: The Problem of Continuity in S. I. Taneev's Views on the Future of Russian Music - Elena Artamonova: Silver Age Aesthetics versus New Conceptions of Soviet Time in Music: Continuity or Discontinuity with the Past? - Natalia Skorokhod: The Old Roots of the New Era: From Leonid Andreev to Sergei Eisenstein, the Unknown Connection - Elena Yushkova: The Phoenix's Rebirth from Its Ashes: Russian Dance in the Twentieth Century - Lyudmil Dimitrov: Russian Drama of the Twentieth Century as an Imported Commodity: The Transgression of Transfer - Margarita Odesskaya: Russian Classics in the Mirror of Vasily Sigarev's Remakes.