Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Late Soviet and Post Soviet Literature by Mikkhail Epshtein, Alexander A. Genis, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Alexander Genis

Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Late Soviet and Post Soviet Literature



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Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Late Soviet and Post Soviet Literature Mikkhail Epshtein, Alexander A. Genis, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Alexander Genis ebook
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ISBN: 9781571810984
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