The History of Russian Literature on Film

David Gillespie is Professor of Russian at the University of Bath, UK, where he has taught since 1985. His books include Iurii Trifonov: Unity through Time (1993), The Twentieth Century Russian Novel: An Introduction (1996), Early Soviet Cinema: Innovation, Ideology and Propaganda (2000), and Russian Cinema (2003). Marina Korneeva is Associate Professor at Moscow City Pedagogical University, Russia, having gained her PhD from Tomsk State University, Russia, in 2018 and is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed publications. Along with David Gillespie and Svetlana Gural, she is the co-editor of the fourth edition of Terence Wade's A Comprehensive Russian Grammar, published in 2020.

List of Images
Preface

Introduction: Russian Literature and Film
Chapter One: The Early Years of Russian Film and Literary Adaptation, 1908-1919
Chapter Two: Writers in ‘the Golden Age’ of Soviet Cinema, 1920-1929
Chapter Three: Socialist Realism and Classics for the Masses, 1930-1953
Chapter Four: Adaptation and the Thaw, 1953-1964
Chapter Five: The Long Nineteenth Century, 1964-1991
Chapter Six: The Twentieth Century in the ‘Stagnation,’ 1964-1991
Chapter Seven: A New Beginning? The Post-Soviet Period, 1991-2020
Chapter Eight: Foreign Adaptations of Russian Literature, 1909-2020
Conclusion: Transferring Word to Screen

Filmography
Bibliography
Index