Dostoevsky and Today's World (Soviet Literature, No. 12 (405))

208pp, plus 8pp of colour plate illustrations.  Printed paper wraps.  8vo.  Covers are a little rubbed at edges and slightly discoloured.  Internally pages have a little age toning, else neat, clean and tight. Soviet Literature was a monthly literary journal published in Moscow between 1946 and 1990, when publication ended with the dissolution of the USSR.  It was dedicated to the dissemination of the literature of the USSR - Russia and its satellite states.  This issue, from 1981 carries a selection of scholarly articles on the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky grouped into themes around Dostoevsky and his Position in World Literature; Background to the Story The Meek One; Newly Found Documents; Soviet Writers on Dostoevsky; Controversy Around Dostoevsky;  The Worldwide Significance of Dostoevsky; Dostoevsky and the Arts; followed by a brief biographical section.