Savely Dudakov. The History of a Myth: Literature in Russia in the
19th – 20th Centuries.
The author of the book now offered to the reader is an eminent Israeli scientist who has made the tliorough analysis of the Russian political and social thought of the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century with an emphasis on the causes giving rise to such a rapid growth of anti-Semitic literature. Special attention is paid to the popular fiction of the period, the publications by V. Krestovsky, B. Markevich, S. Efron, N. Vagner, and many other writers whose names have long been forgotten.
