RU152 Russian Modernism










RU 152 Russian Modernism
Readings and Texts



Books Available For Purchase:

  • Chekhov, Portable Chekhov (Viking, 1976)
  • Sologub, The Petty Demon (Ardis, 1983)
  • Bely, Petersburg (Indiana)
  • Babel, The Collected Stories (New Amer. Lib., 1974)
  • Zamiatin, We (Dutton, 1952)
  • Olesha, Envy (Ardis)
  • Bulgakov, Master and Margarita (Vintage, 1995)
  • Shalamov, Kolyma Tales (Norton, 1982)
  • Nabokov, Speak, Memory (Putnam's, 1970)
  • Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line (Northwestern U.P., 1980)
  • Tolstaya, On the Golden Porch (Random, 1990)

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Xeroxed Materials (available from the Russian Dept):

  • Blok, "The Scythians"
  • Sologub, "My ship begun to sink"
  • Ivanov, "The Child" "How the Burial Mounds Were Made"
  • Pilnyak, "The Death of the Army Commander"
  • Zhdanov, "The Party and the Arts"
  • Zoshchenko, "Adventure of an Ape"
  • Kataev, from TIME, FORWARD!
  • Ilf-Petrov, "How the Soviet ROBINSON Was Written"
  • Solzhenitsyn, from ARCHIPELAGO GULAG II, ch. 1
  • Tschernavin, from I SPEAK FOR THE SILENT
  • Akhmatova, "Requiem"
  • Solzhenitsyn, "Matryona's Home"
  • Evtushenko, "In Memory of Akhmatova"

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