Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : anxiety and the Russian Silver Age
  • Literature and revolution : the case of Aleksandr Blok
  • The Russian Silver Age : its makers and undertakers
  • No "room of her own" : Anna Akhmatova's tenure in Soviet culture
  • The winged eavesdropper : Kuzmin and Nabokov
  • The Silver Age in translation : Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
  • Braving the thaw : Anna Akhmatova in the 1950s and the 1960s
  • The apocalypse revisited : Viktor Erofeev's Russian beauty
  • Coda : the Silver Age up close
  • Appendix: Original Russian texts.