And Quiet Flows the Vodka

And Quiet Flows the Vodka, or When Pushkin Comes to Shove
The Curmudgeon's Guide to Russian Literature and Culture

Editor's Preface

1. Beginnings: The Primary School Chronicle and Prince Vladimir
2. Boris and Gleb and Russian Military Strategy
3. The Hilarious Sermon
4. The Igor Tale
5. The Eighteenth Century
6. Pushkin
7. Gogol, with His Story "Kleptonasia"
8. Herzen and Ogarev
9. Dostoevsky's Unfinished Novel, Torture (from the Notebooks to The Idiot): With Commentary
10. Tolstoy
11. Scene from Chekhov's Play The Dodo
12. The History of Russian Criticism and Thought
13. Notes on the Twentieth Century
      Early Twentieth Century: The Age of Pseudonyms
      The Nothingist Manifesto (Complete Text)
      Formalism and Socialist Realism
      Mikhail Bakhtin
      Poetry of 1920
      Poetry of the 1930s: The Art of Translation
      Three New Stories by Daniil Kharms
      The Era of Torpor
      Postcommunism, Postmodernism
      Three Reports from Minsk
      Sobesednikov's Dream: Dialogues of the Dead

Appendicitis
      Appendix 1: The Awful Russian Language
      Appendix 2: Key Dates in Russian History
      Appendix 3: Classifieds Reclassified: Advertising Russian History
      Appendix 4: Chudo's Familiar Quotations from Russian Culture

Conclusion: Two Dialogues of the Dead on Essential Russianness

An Inivitation to Be Bribed

A Note on the Author and Editor

The Devil's Dictionary of Received Ideas
Alphabetical Reflections on the Loathsomeness of Russia, American Academia, and Humanity in General

Editor's Preface

The Devil's Dictionary of Received Ideas

A Note on the Author and Editor