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Explore Russian masterpieces at all levels-characters, plots, scenes, and sometimes even single sentences-with an award-winning Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages.

Syllabus

  • 01: Origins of Russian Literature
  • 02: The Church and the Folk in Old Kiev
  • 03: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799-1837
  • 04: Exile, Rustic Seclusion, and Onegin
  • 05: December's Uprising and Two Poets Meet
  • 06: A Poet Contrasts Talent versus Mediocrity
  • 07: St. Petersburg Glorified and Death Embraced
  • 08: Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', 1809-1852
  • 09: Russian Grotesque-Overcoats to Dead Souls
  • 10: Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821-1881
  • 11: Near Mortality, Prison, and an Underground
  • 12: Second Wife and a Great Crime Novel Begins
  • 13: Inside the Troubled Mind of a Criminal
  • 14: The Generation of the Karamazovs
  • 15: The Novelistic Presence of Christ and Satan
  • 16: Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910
  • 17: Tale of Two Cities and a Country Home
  • 18: Family Life Meets Military Life
  • 19: Vengeance Is Mine, Saith the Lord
  • 20: Family Life Makes a Comeback
  • 21: Tolstoy the Preacher
  • 22: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818-1883
  • 23: The Stresses between Two Generations
  • 24: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860-1904
  • 25: M. Gorky (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 1868-1936
  • 26: Literature and Revolution
  • 27: The Tribune-Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893-1930
  • 28: The Revolution Makes a U-Turn
  • 29: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905-1984
  • 30: Revolutions and Civil War
  • 31: Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895-1958
  • 32: Among the Godless-Religion and Family Life
  • 33: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960
  • 34: The Poet In and Beyond Society
  • 35: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Born 1918
  • 36: The Many Colors of Russian Literature
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Irwin Weil

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