Some years ago, when this blog was a new venture, I started an annotated reading list of Russian and Soviet labour camp narratives. My aim initially was to expand it over time, but as one so often finds, there never is time, and it has lain neglected for several years now, despite fairly regular comments and emails from readers suggesting some
The Russian Revolution of 1905 was said to be a major factor contributing to the cause of the Revolutions of 1917. The events of Bloody Sunday triggered nationwide protests and …
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881). was a Russian novelist, journalist, short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the human …
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus’, the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.
A line of iambic hexameter. The final line of a Spenserian stanza is an alexandrine. eg: “A needless alexandrine ends the song / That like a wounded snake, drags its …
Women in the sixteenth, th, and eighteenth centuries were challenged with expressing themselves in a patriarchal system that generally refused to grant merit to women…
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Russian literature, the body of written works produced in the Russian language, beginning with the Christianization of Kievan Rus in the late 10th century.. The unusual shape of Russian literary history has been the source of numerous controversies.
