From Symbolism to Socialist Realism: A Reader - Cultural Syllabus

Offers a broad variety of materials that contextualize the texts most frequently read in Russian literature courses. These approaches cover critical-theoretical articles, cultural and historical analyses, literary manifestos and declarations of literary aesthetics, memoirs of revolutionary terrorism and arrests by the NKVD, political denunciations and "literary vignettes" capturing the spirit of its particular time in a nutshell.