Reading Schedule: Weeks 6-10
Russian 3304

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Week Six

Empire and Popular Uprisings (Feb. 12)

Alexander I and War with France (Feb. 16)

Week Seven

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (Feb. 19)

  • Krylov's "The Swan, the Pike, and the Crab" and "The Ape and the Spectacles"  page 100 in the course materials.
  • Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" 101-114 in the course materials and "The Bronze Horseman" on the Internet.

Lermontov and Gogol (Feb. 21)

  • Lermontov's poems 115-116 in the course materials.
  • Gogol's "The Cloak" 117-130 in the course materials or on the internet.

 Society and Government in the 19th Century (Feb. 23)

Week Eight

Glinka and Tchaikovsky (Feb. 26) 

Great Composers: The Five (Feb. 28)

Tolstoy and Turgenev (March 2)

  • Turgenev's "Mumu" and Tolstoy's "Yardstick" 131-166 in the course materials.

Week Nine

Dostoevsky (March 5)

  • Read "Rebellion" and "The Grand Inquisitor" (from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov) 167-181 in the course materials.

19th Century Art (March 9)

Spring Break: March 10-18

Week Ten

Anton Chekhov (March 19)

  • Read Chekhov's "The Darling" 182-192 in the course materials.

Revolution in Russia (March 21)

Russian Decadence and Symbolism (March 23)

  • Read pages 193-200 in the course materials.

The Second Mid-term will be on March 26!


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