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If modernism marked, as some critics claim, an "apocalypse of cultural community," then Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) must rank among its most representative figures. Born to Central European Jews in Warsaw on the cusp of the modern age, he could claim neither Russian nor European traditions as his birthright. Describing the poetic movement he helped to found, Acmeism, as a "yearning for world culture," he defined the impulse that charges his own poetry and prose. Clare Cavanagh has written a sustained study placing Mandelstam's "remembrance and invention" of a usable poetic past in the context of modernist writing in general, with particular attention to the work of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.Cavanagh traces Mandelstam's creation of tradition from his earliest lyrics to his last verses, written shortly before his arrest and subsequent death in a Stalinist camp. Her work shows how the poet, generalizing from his own dilemmas and disruptions, addressed his epoch's paradoxical legacy of disinheritance--and how he responded to this unwelcome legacy with one of modernism's most complex, ambitious, and challenging visions of tradition. Drawing on not only Russian and Western modernist writing and theory, but also modern European Jewish culture, Russian religious thought, postrevolutionary politics, and even silent film, Cavanagh traces Mandelstam's recovery of a "world culture" vital, vast, and varied enough to satisfy the desires of the quintessential outcast modernist. ... Read more

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Selected poems of Osip Mandelstam ... Read more

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The increasing availability of Mandel'stam's work in the West has awakened widespread, serious interest in his poetry.Mandel'stam's importance as a major twentieth-century poet hardly needs to be argued at this time, yet for this very reason it is important to furnish a concrete, factual examination of the poems on which this reputation is based.By analyzing in careful detail a number of Mandel'stam's poems written between 1913 and 1923, a crucial period in Russian history and in the poet's career as well, Steven Broyde uncovers Mandel'stam's persistent themes and his characteristic poetic method. ... Read more

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Chapters: Soviet Rehabilitations, Nikolai Bukharin, Osip Mandelstam, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Andrei Tupolev, Christian Rakovsky, Hovhannes Bagramyan, Isaak Babel, Béla Kun, Pavel Dybenko, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Pavel Florensky, Varlam Shalamov, Vladimir N. Beneshevich, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Iona Yakir, Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov, Abani Mukherji, Alexey Rykov, Mikheil Javakhishvili, Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, Jānis K. Bērziņš, Grigory Kulik, Eugen Rozvan, Peter of Krutitsy, Jaan Anvelt, Sławomir Rawicz, Gleb Yakunin, Alexander Samoylovich, Alexander Shlyapnikov, Hryhorii Epik, Yeghishe Charents, Dmitry Pavlov, Nikolai Krestinsky, Fedor Raskolnikov, Aleksandr Voronsky, Anatoly Pepelyayev, David Bergelson, Night of the Murdered Poets, Gayk Bzhishkyan, Boris Hessen, Anna Timiryova, Boris Sobinov, Marcel Pauker, Itzik Feffer, Mikhail Tomsky, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Chabua Amirejibi, Volodymyr Zatonsky, Gaioz Devdariani, Vahan Totovents, Ivan Maisky, Georgy Pyatakov, Movses Silikyan, Alexander Chayanov, Sergei Tretyakov, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Solomon Lozovsky, Gustav Klutsis, Ecaterina Arbore, Daniil Andreyev, Stanislav Kosior, Ivan Nikitich Smirnov, Mamia Orakhelashvili, Leonid Kurchevsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov, Vitaly Markovich Primakov, Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea, Nikolai Vlasik, Semyon Dimanstein, Metropolitan Vasyl, Yuliy Kim, Ivan Kulik, Yan Rudzutak, Mikayil Mushfig, Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh, Lev Shubnikov, Arno Esch, Nikolay Urvantsev, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Pamphylia Tanailidi, Stanislav Redens, Ivan Lorents, Ivan Kandyba, Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva, Benjamin Zuskin, Yevgeny Polivanov, Grigory Sokolnikov, Sultan Majid Afandiyev, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Zof, Nikolai Glebov-Avilov, Sergei Chavain, George Fles, Benedikt Livshits, Andrei Bubnov, Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, Hryhoriy Hrynko, Bekir Çoban-Zade, Gerzel Baazov, Vitaliy Kalynychenko, Hecîyê Cindî, Boris Bazarov, Yakov Gamarnik, Frans Myyryläinen, Mi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=606917 ... Read more

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When Stone first appeared in 1913, it marked the debut of one of Russia’s greatest 20th century poets. This bilingual edition, translated by Robert Tracy, was first published in 1991 to mark the poet’s centenary. ... Read more