Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Book of Odes and the Book of History
Part I—Poetry beyond the Pale
Russian Women’s Poetry in the 1930s
Sophia Parnok and Soviet-Russian Censorship, 1922–1933
Overcoming the Destruction of Peasant Russia: The Epic Impulse in Nikolai Kliuev’s Late Poetry
Death of a Poet: Osip Mandelshtam
Part II—Creators of Public Art
How the Weasel and the Well Became the Heavens and the Earth: Soviet Yiddish Drama in the 1930s
Bezhin lug (Bezhin Meadow)
Soviet Youth Theater Grows Up: TRAM in the 1930s
Vsevolod Meyerhold: The Final Act
Part III—The Voices of Silence
Mykola Khvylovy: A Defiant Ukrainian Communist
The Three Deaths of Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel’
Death and Disillusion: Il’ia Il’f in the 1930s
Notes on Contributors