Paul's Research Interests: Erofeev (Moscow-Petushki & underrepresented works); Pasternak (Doktor Zhivago & translations); Brodsky (primarily Gorbunov and Gorshakov and Twenty Sonnets to Mary Stewart); Tolstoy (short prose: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Two Hussars, etc.), Dostoevsky; samizdat; fate and fatalism.

Languages: Russian, French, Spanish, German (studying) & Polish (plan to study)

Soviet Dialecticism: What is Democracy? (below)

1. Benjamin Franklin said, “A republic, if you can keep it”;
2. The Bolsheviks responded: Tsar Nicholas II could not.