Introduction: The Short Story as the Genre of Cultural Transition / Lyudmila Parts
Chekhov's "The Darling": Femininity Scorned and Desired / Svetlana Evdokimova
Bunin's "Gentle Breath" / Lev Vygotsky
Ekphrasis in Isaak Babel ("Pan Apolek," "My First Goose")
Robert Maguire
Zoshchenko's "Electrician," or the Complex Theatrical Mechanism / Aleksander Zholkovsky
Yury Olesha's Three Ages of Man: A Close Reading of "Liompa" / Andrew Barratt
Nabokov's Art of Memory: Recollected Emotion in "Spring in Fialta" (1936-1947) / John Burt Foster, Jr
Child Perspective: Tradition and Experiment. An Analysis of "The Childhood of Luvers" by Boris Pasternak / Fiona Björling
Andrei Platonov and the Inadmissibility of Desire ("The River Potudan") / Eric Naiman
"This Could Have Been Foreseen": Kharms's "The Old Woman" (Starukha) Revisited. A Collective Analysis / Robin Milner-Gulland
Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov's "Condensed Milk" / Leona Toker
The Writer as Criminal: Abram Tertz's "Pkhents" / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Vasilii Shukshin's "Cut Down to Size" (Srezal) and the Question of Transition / Diane Ignashev Nemec
Carnivalization of the Short Story Genre and the Künstlernovelle: Tatiana Tolstaia's "The Poet and the Muse" / Erica Greber
Down the Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy / Lyudmila Parts
"The Lady with the Dogs," by Lyudmila Petrushevskaia / Translated by Krystyna Anna Steiger
Russian Postmodernist Fiction and Mythologies of History: Viacheslav Pietsukh's "The Central-Ermolaevo War" and Viktor Erofeev's "Parakeet" / Mark Lipovetsky
Psychosis and Photography: Andrei Bitov's "Pushkin's Photograph" / Sven Spieker
The "Traditional Postmodernism" of Viktor Pelevin's Short Story "Nika" / Olga Bogdanova.