Professor of Russian and Soviet Literature
Education: High School: Rostov-on-Don, Salzburg; University of Graz (1947-1949), Slavic Philology, German), Stanford University (B.A. Russian), University of California at Berkeley (M.A., 1953; Ph.D, 1959 in Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Research Interests: Soviet literature, Socialist realism, Soviet censorship, Sholokhov, Solzhenitsyn, Gorky, Olesha, Trifonov, Tolstoy.
Courses taught (undergraduate): Soviet literature (all periods), Russian 19th-century literature, Russian Novel, Russian Short Story, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, First-, Second-Third- and Fourth-year Russian.
Courses taught (graduate): Soviet literature, 1917-1930; 1930-1965; 1965 to the present; Sholokhov and Solzhenitsyn
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Authored:
Soviet Literary Theories, 1917-1934: The
Genesis of Socialist Realism, “Modern Philology
Series,” No. 69 (1963), University of California
Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 261 pp.;
Reprint: New York: Octagon Books, 1977.
Mikhail Sholokhov and His Art. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1982, 375 pp.; Rev. ed. in Russian trans.: Mikhail Sholokhov i ego tvorchestvo.
St. Petersburg: Akademichesky proekt, 2000, 445pp.
Censorship in Soviet Literature, 1917-1991. Lanham,
Boulder, New York, London: Rowman and Littlefield,
1997, 323 pp.
Co-authored:
Co-author with A.B. Murphy and V.P. Butt of
Sholokhov’s Tikhii Don: A Commentary. Birmingham
(England): Birmingham Slavonic Monographs No. 27,
University of Birmingham Central Printing Services,
1997, Vol. 1 254 pp, Vol. 2 250 pp.
Edited:
Maxim Gorky, Nesvoevremennye mysli. Paris: Editions de la Seine, 1971, 304pp. Trans. into French: Pensées intempestives,1917-1918. Par Maxime Gorki Texte établi et annoté avec introduction par Herman Ermolaev. Trad. francaise par Lucile Nivat et Sylvaine Drablier. Lausanne: Editions L’Age d’Homme, 1975 245 pp.
Translated and Edited: Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918. New York: Paul
S. Eriksson, 1968, 302 pp; Reprint: London: Garnstone Press, 1970; New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 1995.
Articles:
1. “Sholokhov Thirty Years After: Virgin Soil Upturned, II”, Survey (London), No., 36, April-June 1961, pp.20-26.
2. “The Emergence and Early Evolution of Socialist
Realism (1932-1934), “California Slavic Studies,
1963, Vol. II, pp. 141-168.
3. “The Role of Nature in The Quiet Don”, California
Slavic Studies, Vol. VI, 1971, pp. 97-111.
4. “Sozialisticher Realimus”, Sowjetsystem und demokratische Gesellschaft: Eine vergleichende Enzyklopadie, Herder Verlag, Freiburg-Basel-Wien, Vol. V, 1972, pp. 1031-1045.
5. “Riddles of The Quiet Don, Slavic and East
European Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, Fall 1974, pp.
299-310.
6. “Who Wrote The Quiet Don?” (review article),
Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3,
Fall 1976, pp. 293-307.
7. “Bog Andreia i Bog P’era,” Transactions of the
Association of the Russian –American Scholars in USA, Vol. 11, 1978, pp. 174-182.
8. “Proshloe i nastoiaschee v ‘Starike’ Iuriia Trifonova”, (The Past and the Present in Iurii Trifonov’s Old Man). Russian Language
Journal, Vol. XXXVII, No. 128 (Fall, 1983),
pp. 131-145.
9. Solzenicyn’s Self-Censorship: Two Versions of
The First Circle.” Russian Language Journal,
Vol. XXXVII, No. 129-130 (Winter-Spring 1984),
pp. 177-185.
10. “The Theme of Terror in Starik.” Aspects of Modern Russian and Czech Literature: Selected
Papers of the Third World Congress for Soviet
And East European Studies, edited by Arnold
McMillin. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers,
Inc., 1989, pp,96-109.
11. “Portrayal of Nationalities in Soviet Russian Literature,” The Search for Self-Definition in
Russian Literature, edited by Ewa M. Thompson.
Houston, Texas, Rice University Press, 1991, pp.
21-32.
12. “Zapad glazami sovetskooi tsenzury 1946-1953 godov,” Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, Vol. XXV, 1993, pp. 75-81.
13. Deistvitell’nost’ i vymysel v odnoi iz glav “Tikhogo Dona,” Don (Rostov-on-Don), No. 5-6,
1995, pp. 84-91.
14. “A.N. Tolstoi v izobrazhenii A.I. Solzhenitsyna,”
Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the U.S.A., Vol. 29, 1998, pp. 289-303.
15. “Tsenzurnaia, pravka “Vremeni i mesta”, Mir prozy Iuriia Trifonova: Sbornik statei, comp. N.B. Iva- nova, A.P. Shitov. Ekaterinburg: Ural’skii univ., 2000, pp.133-140.
16. “Kakim dolzhno byt’ akademicheskoe sobranie sochinenii M.A. Sholokhova. Russkaia literatura
(St. Petersburg) No. 1, 2001, pp. 152-158.
17. “Politicheskaia tsenzura Tikhogo Dona. Postsimvolizm kak invlenie kul’tury, No. 3, Mocow-Tver’, 2001, pp. 46-50.
WORK IN PROGRESS: Politicheskaia tsenzura “Tikhogo Dona” (book)