The hundredth anniversary of Belinskij's death—now being widely celebrated in the Soviet Union—is perhaps a convenient occasion on which to review the significant published scholarly works which have been devoted to the great Russian critic since 1917. It should be said at the outset that Soviet scholarship on Belinskij is meager in comparison to what has been done on Russian writers of belles lettres such as Puškin and Tolstoj, but it compares more than favorably in volume and quality with the efforts expended on other Soviet favorites among the nineteenth-century Russian literary critics such as Černyševskij, Dobroljubov, and Pisarev.