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From Two to Five
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
Diary, 1901-1969
A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children’s linguistic creativity, and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. As benefactor to many writers including Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky, he stood for several decades at the center of the Russian literary milieu. It is no exaggeration to claim that Chukovsky knew everyone involved in shaping the course of twentieth-century Russian literature. His voluminous diary, here translated into English for the first time, begins in prerevolutionary Russia and spans nearly the entire Soviet era. It is the candid commentary of ...
Doctor Ouch
A kindly veterinarian from Russia is summoned from his home to care for some animals in Africa and is able to reach them with the help of wolves, a whale, and an eagle.
From Two to Five
Explores the language, thought processes, and imagination of the very young.
Buzzy-Wuzzy Busy Fly
English version of Korney Chukovsky's 1923 famous poetic form tale Buzzy-Wuzzy Busy Fly (Russian: Муха-Цокотуха). The early edition was banned in the Soviet Union.
Mishmash
Mishmash is the poem for little children about a funny mix-up that happened among the animals.
The Firebird and the Fox
A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.
Doctor Powderpill
Doctor Powderpill travels in many strange parts curing the animals who applaud him enthusiastically.
Sofia Petrovna
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor's office, hoping against hope for good news. Confronted with a world that makes no moral sense, Sofia goes mad, a madness which manifests itself in delusions little different from the lies those around her tell every day to protect themselves. Sofia Petrovna offers a rare and vital record of Stalin's Great Purges.
