The Predictability of the Past: Three Contemporary Russian Plays
- ISBN-10
- 0893574767
- ISBN-13
- 9780893574765
- Category
- Russian drama
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Three String Books
- Authors
- Dmitrii Bykov, Sergei Kokovkin, IAroslava Pulinovich
Description
"The diverse, contemporary Russian plays translated in this trilogy speak to themes underpinning the social, cultural, and political realities of post-Soviet Russia. Together, these plays by Dmitry Bykov, Sergei Kokovkin, and Yaroslava Pulinovich reveal Russia's present and its ever-changing, politically-appropriated and re-appropriated past"--
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