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Origins of Russian Literature
2.
The Church and the Folk in Old Kiev
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Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799–1837
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Exile, Rustic Seclusion, and Onegin
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December’s Uprising and Two Poets Meet
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A Poet Contrasts Talent Versus Mediocrity
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St. Petersburg Glorified and Death Embraced
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Nikolai Vasil’Evich Gogol’, 1809–1852
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Russian Grotesque — Overcoats to Dead Souls
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Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821–1881
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Near Mortality, Prison, and an Underground
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Second Wife and a Great Crime Novel Begins
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Inside the Troubled Mind of a Criminal
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The Generation of the Karamazovs
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The Novelistic Presence of Christ and Satan
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Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828–1910
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Tale of Two Cities and a Country Home
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Family Life Meets Military Life
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Vengeance Is Mine, Saith the Lord
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Family Life Makes a Comeback
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Tolstoy the Preacher
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818–1883
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The Stresses Between Two Generations
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860–1904
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M. Gorky (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 1868–1936
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Literature and Revolution
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The Tribune — Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893–1930
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The Revolution Makes a U-Turn
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905–1984
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Revolutions and Civil War
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895–1958
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Among the Godless — Religion and Family Life
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890–1960
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The Poet in and Beyond Society
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Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Born 1918
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The Many Colors of Russian Literature