Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University and Leading Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies, and co-editor of the Bloomsbury book series Literatures, Cultures, Translation. His most recent publications include the monographs Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature and Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire.

• AcknowledgmentsEditor IntroductionTranslator PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Theory of Translation as a Scholarly DisciplineChapter Two: From the History of Translation and of Thinking about TranslationChapter Three: Marx, Engels, and Lenin on TranslationChapter Four: The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Soviet UnionChapter Five: Vital Issues Concerning Translation Theory in Light of Joseph Stalin’s Teaching on LinguisticsChapter Six: Clarifying the Problem of Translatability and the Principle of a Full Value (Adekvatnyi) TranslationChapter Seven: General Problems Related to Language in TranslationChapter Eight: Varieties of Translation Related to the Genre Type of the Translated MaterialAppendix: Basic Concepts Associated with the Translation of PoetryReferencesIndex

Brian James Baer has long been our leading translator of and commentator on Russian thinking about translation, and now he has done us the great service of making the early and groundbreaking work of Fedorov available to us in English. His translation is highly attentive to the cultural situatedness of Fedorov’s thought and presentation in the 1950s Soviet Union, with helpful annotations and meticulous correction of false friends appearing in past English discussions.Douglas Robinson, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University and Leading Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies, and co-editor of the Bloomsbury book series Literatures, Cultures, Translation. His most recent publications include the monographs Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature and Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire.

• AcknowledgmentsEditor IntroductionTranslator PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Theory of Translation as a Scholarly DisciplineChapter Two: From the History of Translation and of Thinking about TranslationChapter Three: Marx, Engels, and Lenin on TranslationChapter Four: The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Soviet UnionChapter Five: Vital Issues Concerning Translation Theory in Light of Joseph Stalin’s Teaching on LinguisticsChapter Six: Clarifying the Problem of Translatability and the Principle of a Full Value (Adekvatnyi) TranslationChapter Seven: General Problems Related to Language in TranslationChapter Eight: Varieties of Translation Related to the Genre Type of the Translated MaterialAppendix: Basic Concepts Associated with the Translation of PoetryReferencesIndex

Brian James Baer has long been our leading translator of and commentator on Russian thinking about translation, and now he has done us the great service of making the early and groundbreaking work of Fedorov available to us in English. His translation is highly attentive to the cultural situatedness of Fedorov’s thought and presentation in the 1950s Soviet Union, with helpful annotations and meticulous correction of false friends appearing in past English discussions.Douglas Robinson, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University and Leading Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies, and co-editor of the Bloomsbury book series Literatures, Cultures, Translation. His most recent publications include the monographs Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature and Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire.

• AcknowledgmentsEditor IntroductionTranslator PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Theory of Translation as a Scholarly DisciplineChapter Two: From the History of Translation and of Thinking about TranslationChapter Three: Marx, Engels, and Lenin on TranslationChapter Four: The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Soviet UnionChapter Five: Vital Issues Concerning Translation Theory in Light of Joseph Stalin’s Teaching on LinguisticsChapter Six: Clarifying the Problem of Translatability and the Principle of a Full Value (Adekvatnyi) TranslationChapter Seven: General Problems Related to Language in TranslationChapter Eight: Varieties of Translation Related to the Genre Type of the Translated MaterialAppendix: Basic Concepts Associated with the Translation of PoetryReferencesIndex

Brian James Baer has long been our leading translator of and commentator on Russian thinking about translation, and now he has done us the great service of making the early and groundbreaking work of Fedorov available to us in English. His translation is highly attentive to the cultural situatedness of Fedorov’s thought and presentation in the 1950s Soviet Union, with helpful annotations and meticulous correction of false friends appearing in past English discussions.Douglas Robinson, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong