The fifth volume in this series of long essays in the field of Slavic letters and intellectual history presents three studies. Thomas Butler has analyzed the attacks of Vuk Karadzic on the language of the popular novelist Milovan Vidakovic. George Siegel discusses a theme of importance to many Russian writers in "The Fallen Woman in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature." And in "The Poetry of Georgij Ivanov," Irina Agushi presents the first comprehensive analysis of one of the most gifted and successful of the emigre Russian poets.

Other: Albert B Lord, Wiktor Weintraub, Vsevolod Setchkarev, Robert A Rothstein