...the characters and symbolism in Russian fairy tales could be called Origin of the Russian Psyche. ...masterly and extremely readable...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

The story of Ivan the Fool portrays Tolstoy's communistic ideas, involving the abolition of military forces, middleman, despotism, and money. Instead of these h

In this old Russian folk tale, a fool sets out to see the world.

"A complex dramatic reconstruction of Russian history concerned with the founding in 1905 of one of the earliest soviets, at the textile center of Ivanovo-Vozne