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This informative and stimulating study of Maximilian Voloshin will be of interest to students of Russian literature, history, and Modernist studies. ... the book offers many new insights and observations on Voloshin's links with other modernist writers and thinkers, and surveys many interesting responses to his poetry produced by his contemporaries. (The Russian Review, Vol. 76 (1), January, 2017) Landa's detailed account of Voloshin's work and its contemporary and posthumous reception provide a much needed addition to the growing field of Voloshin scholarship and a key resource for anybody interested in twentieth-century Russian society and culture. (Joseph Schlegel, Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 60 (2), 2016)

Landa's detailed account of Voloshin's work and its contemporary and posthumous reception provide a much needed addition to the growing field of Voloshin scholarship and a key resource for anybody interested in twentieth-century Russian society and culture. (Joseph Schlegel, Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 60 (2), 2016)

Landa's innovative book focuses on Maksimilian Voloshin as a great poet as well as a major cultural phenomenon. After carefully placing Voloshin in the context of his time, she traces the reception of his work, showing how it reflects Russians' complex and contradictory self-perceptions beginning with his contemporaries and continuing up to the present day. Readers from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines will appreciate the way that Landa deftly weaves together biography, poetry, history, and politics. - Michael Wachtel, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, USA In this book Mariana Landa accomplishes two very important tasks. First, she restores Maksimilian Voloshin to his rightful place as one of the major Russian poets of the early part of the twentieth century, providing sensitive, diligently contextualized readings of his powerful post-Revolutionary works. She then offers a fascinating case study of the various uses to which poetry has been put in the political process. Anyone with an interest in Voloshin's work, in the interplay between literature and politics, and in Russia's ongoing struggle to define itself will learn a great deal from this book. - Boris Dralyuk, Lecturer in Russian, University of St Andrews, UK Landa's book is very timely since it addresses Russia's perpetual identity crisis and posits Maximilian Voloshin as an overlooked solution both to the political and cultural turmoil that engulfed Russia/the Soviet Union shortly after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, and to the no less chaotic and disorienting situation that followed the disintegration of the Soviet Union and has continued to these days. The book is becoming more pertinent with every passing minute, since many of its descriptions of what was taking place in the period from 1917 to 1923 seem to have been written about the current political crisis in Ukraine, which Russia is simultaneously trying to resolve and contributing to. Landa's book will be a discovery for all those who appreciate great poetry, and Voloshin was truly a great poet. - Galina Rylkova, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Florida, USA, and author of The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and Its Legacy Landa's reconstruction of the poet Maximilian Voloshin's world is unforgettable. It derives its power from masterful analysis of the complex relationship between Voloshin's poetry, historical events, and reader reception - both in the tumultuous years surrounding the Revolutions of 1917, and the cataclysmic decades since the USSR ended in 1991. The result is a bold meditation on Russian identity. - Glennys Young, Professor of History and International Studies, University of Washington, USA

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Marianna Landa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.                                                                              

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