Columbia University Press, 1988. — 525 p.
Offers profiles of Soviet writers, both approved and unapproved, and briefly discusses censorship, social realism, and Russian emigration. Translation of Wolfgang Kasack, Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917, (1976 Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart), and of Wolfgang Kasack, Lexikon der russischen Literature ab 1917. Ergänzungsband (Arbeiten und Texte zur Slavistik,38), published 1986 by Otto Sagner Verlag, Munich. Translated by Maria Carlson and Jane T. Hedges. Bibliographical Revision by Rebecca Atack