H.G. Wells and all things Russian / edited by Galya Diment.

Contents Introduction: "The Wells effect" / Galya Diment -- Wells in Russia pre WWII -- Yevgeny Zamyatin and the Wellsian utopia / Maxim Shadurski -- Time machines and metamorphoses: H.G. Wells's Influence on Mikhail Bulgakov and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky / Muireann Maguire -- "The Wellsian twist in Nabokov's "Terra Incognita" / Zoran Kuzmanovich -- Post WWII -- "Unregenerate mass nature" in H. G. Wells and the Brothers Strugatsky / Richard Boyechko -- Culturology: Yuly Kagarlitsky's Life of Wells / Patrick Parrinder -- "Come and visit us in ten year time!": Representation of H. G. Wells on the Russian Stage and Screen / Olga Sobolev and Angus Wrenn -- Russia in Wells -- Russia and H. G. Wells's Babes in the Darkling Wood / David Rampton -- Wells and Gorky / Ira Nadel -- Odette Keun Versus H. G. Wells on Russia / Galya Diment -- Appendix. Translations: V. D. Nabokov on Visiting Wells in England in 1916 / (trans. Galya Diment) -- Alexander Amfiteatrov on Wells's visit to Russia in 1920 / (trans. Veronica Muskheli) -- Alexander Belyaev on the Wells-Lenin debate about "utopias" / (trans. Galya Diment) -- Karl Radek and Solomon Lozovsky to Stalin / (trans. Galya Diment) -- Yury Olesha on his love for Wells / (trans. Galya Diment) -- Yuly Kagarlitsky on being a Soviet biographer of Wells / (trans. Veronica Muskheli).
General noteWork consists of both items originally published in English and other items newly translated to English from the original Russian.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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