Lazar Fleishman taught at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1974 - 1984), from 1985 Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. Fedor Poljakov is Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Vienna, the editor of the series Russian Culture in Europe (Peter Lang Verlag).

The volume elucidates new aspects of Polish-Russian, German-Russian, Russian-Baltic, and Russian-French literary contacts.The essays deal with Blok, Bely, Akhmatova, Babel, Jabotinsky, Remizov, and Nabokov and cover post-Stalinist Soviet "samizdat" and the story of publication of Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"

The volume elucidates new aspects of Polish-Russian, German-Russian, Russian-Baltic, and Russian-French literary contacts.The essays deal with Blok, Bely, Akhmatova, Babel, Jabotinsky, Remizov, and Nabokov and cover post-Stalinist Soviet "samizdat" and the story of publication of Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"

The volume consists of 27 essays dedicated to Vladimir Khazan, the leading specialist in Russian-Jewish relationship and in the study of 20^th century Russian literature. The essays deal with Blok, Bely, Akhmatova, Babel, Jabotinsky, Remizov, and Nabokov. The volume introduces unknown documents and facts that elucidate new aspects of Polish-Russian, German-Russian, Russian-Baltic, and Russian-French literary contacts, reveal unknown details about post-Stalinist Soviet "samizdat" and the story of publication of Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago". Among the contributors are such distinguished scholars as Konstantin Azadovsky, Oleg Budnitskii, Stefano Garzonio, Mirja Lecke, Leonid Livak, Magnus Ljunggren, Paolo Mancosu, Piotr Mitzner, Boris Ravdin, and Roman Timenchik