The problem of madness has preoccupied Russian thinkers since the beginning of Russia's troubled history and has been dealt with repeatedly in literature, art,

Editors Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky have brought together essays that cover over 250 years and address a wide variety of ideas related to madness

What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and lite

The destructive power of obsessive love was a defining subject of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature. In Febris Erotica, Sobol argues that Ru

What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and lite