This volume brings together diverse contributions from an international team of scholars, asking what has sustained Russian cultural development across the centuries and how Russian culture has evolved to this day. It covers a broad range of Russian life, literature and arts, and sets debates in historical perspective.

Contents: Olga Tabachnikova: Introduction: Continuity behind Rupture - Russian History as Ideological Narrative: Continuities and Breaks - Olha Chervinska and Aleksandr Sych: Historical Background of Russian Literature - Aleksandr A. Medvedev: Athena versus Gaia: Ideology and Being in Russian Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Prishvin, Andrei Tarkovsky) - Lidia I. Shishkina: Political Terrorism of the Early Twentieth Century in the Context of Russian Cultural Consciousness - Natalia Vinokurova and Olga Tabachnikova: Economic Thought as a Mirror of Cultural Debates: The Ideology of Westernism and Slavophilism in Modern Russia - Ways and Waves of Cultural Development in the Russian Literary Mirror - Olha Chervinska: Rift versus Attraction as the Receptive Motivators of Russian Culture - Sarah Ossipow Cheang: Marina Tsvetaeva's Poetry as an Embodiment of Russian Cultural Dialectic of Rupture and Continuity - Larisa V. Polyakova: Creative Personality as an Indicator and Formula for the Discontinuity/ Continuity of Culture: Yevgeny Zamyatin - Elena Tchougounova-Paulson: «Ah, they'll be driven off to the steppes, my Harlequins...»: Pnin the Wanderer as an Incarnation of Russian Fin de Siècle Culture Abroad - Elena V. Glukhova: Cultural Transfer and Continuity: Gothic in the Russian «Estate Text» - Vladimir Golstein: Continuities and Discontinuities of Russian Culture through the Prism of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons - From Literature to Performing Arts: Shifts of Cultural Paradigm - Galima Lukina: The Problem of Continuity in S. I. Taneev's Views on the Future of Russian Music - Elena Artamonova: Silver Age Aesthetics versus New Conceptions of Soviet Time in Music: Continuity or Discontinuity with the Past? - Natalia Skorokhod: The Old Roots of the New Era: From Leonid Andreev to Sergei Eisenstein, the Unknown Connection - Elena Yushkova: The Phoenix's Rebirth from Its Ashes: Russian Dance in the Twentieth Century - Lyudmil Dimitrov: Russian Drama of the Twentieth Century as an Imported Commodity: The Transgression of Transfer - Margarita Odesskaya: Russian Classics in the Mirror of Vasily Sigarev's Remakes.