A brief, yet prolix summary of early Russian literature.
Something that makes Russian literature so crucial to Russian culture is that from its very inception it was not a medium for escapist fantasies, but a prescriptive tool at its gentlest and scathing social commentary at its best. It began with the introspective and cautiously spiritual [...]
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From Poet to Prophet
Posted in History, Russian, assignments on 26/03/08 | 4 Comments »
Propaganda
Posted in History, Philosophy, Russian, tagged Propaganda on 17/03/08 | 1 Comment »
Some images to provide context/illustration to my updated page on Russian Literature:
A Brief History of Women, Communism, and Literature
Posted in History, Russian, tagged Communist literature, Feminism, Literature, Propaganda, Russia, Strogova on 11/02/08 | 1 Comment »
Little is known about the life of Ekaterina Strogova. The vast majority of Stragova’s work was published in the periodical Pereval¹ and therefore lost during a wave of purges under Stalin. Only one text other than “The Womenfolk” remains, an unpublished story resting in Russia’s Central State Archive of Literature and Art.
Stragova’s solitary surviving success, [...]
