Russian literature, the first thousand years / Old Russian literature and its heritage / Russian literature in the eighteenth century / Folklore and Russian literature / Religious writing in post-Petrine Russia / Pre-revolutionary Russian theatre / Pushkin: from Byron to Shakespeare / golden age of Russian poetry / classic Russian novel / superfluous man in Russian literature / Nineteenth-century Russian thought and literature / silver age: symbolism and post-symbolism / Women's writing in Russia / Russian literary theory: from the formalists to Lotman / Socialist realism in Soviet literature / Experiment and emigration: Russian literature, 1917-1953 / Russian poetry since 1945 / Post-revolutionary Russian theatre / Thaws, freezes and wakes: Russian literature, 1953-1991 / Post-soviet Russian literature