Maximilian Voloshin and the Russian literary circle : culture and survival in revolutionary times / Barbara Walker.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2005], ©2005.

xiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Voloshin's social and cultural origins -- The Russian symbolists and their circles -- Voloshin and the modernist problem of the ugly poetess -- The Koktebel' dacha circle -- Insiders and outsiders, gossip and mythology : from communitas toward network node -- Voloshin carves power out of fear -- Voloshin carves power, cont'd, and the broader context and implications of his activities -- Inside Voloshin's Soviet circle : persistence of structure, preservation of anti-structure -- Collapse of a patronage network and Voloshin's death.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-229) and index.

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