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The \"Silver Age\" (c. 1890-1917) has been one of the most intensely studied topics in Russian literary studies, and for years scholars have been struggling with its precise definition. Firmly established in the Russian cultural psyche, it continues to influence both literature and mass media.The Archaeology of Anxietyis the first extended analysis of why the Silver Age occupies such prominence in Russian collective consciousness. Galina Rylkova examines the Silver Age as a cultural construct-the byproduct of an anxiety that permeated society in reaction to the social, political, and cultural upheavals brought on by the Bolshevik Revolution, the fall of the Romanovs, the Civil War, and Stalin's Great Terror. Rylkova's astute analysis of writings by Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak and Victor Erofeev reveals how the construct of the Silver Age was perpetuated and ingrained. Rylkova explores not only the Silver Age's importance to Russia's cultural identity but also the sustainability of this phenomenon. In so doing, she positions the Silver Age as an essential element to Russian cultural survival.

Sensitive new translations of Akhmatova's great long poems that document both intense personal suffering and cataclysmic national tragedy.

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California is in lockdown but my ophthalmologist husband is performing an upper and lower blepharoplasty on a patient who's decided that a global pandemic is a fine time to get a little eyelid work done. [...]he promises to work in fresh scrubs daily, wear a mask and gloves at all times, require his patients to sanitize their hands, and regularly disinfect the receptionist's counter. Panicked buying was underway-hand sanitizer, toilet paper, frozen foods, anything with bleach. [...]I think about the poet Anna Akhmatova, who wrote her greatest work under extreme duress, or Frida Kahlo, who turned her excruciating physical and emotional pain into exquisite self-portraits.