Russia and Eurasia: Empires and Enduring Legacies
Fall, Winter, Spring, 2006-2007

REQUIRED TEXTS FOR Spring 2007

Because we will examine these texts closely, and because we desire to avoid any complications that might otherwise arise from varying pagination, we prefer that you either buy or find library copies of the same editions listed below, all of which are available for purchase at the campus bookstore. You may be able to find the same editions at better prices through various on-line dealers such as abebooks.com; half.com; amazon.com, etc.

(in approximate reading order)

  1. Russia and the Russians: A History. Geoffrey Hosking (Harvard U. Press, 2003)
  2. Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia.  Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia (Indiana, 1993)
  3. The State and Revolution.  Vladimir Lenin (1917; Penguin, 1992)
  4. Ali and Nino.  Kurban Said (Anchor Books, 2000)  
  5. We.  Yuri Zamiatin (Harper, Collins, 1972)
  6. Cement.  Fyodor Gladkov (Northwestern Univ. Press, 1994).
  7. The Trial Begins and On Socialist Realism.  Abram Tertz (Andrei Siniavsky) U.C. Press, 1982)
  8. The Master and Margarita.  Mikhail Bulgakov (Penguin, 2001)
  9. Behind the Urals.  John Scott (Indiana Univ. Press, 1989)
  10. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (FSG Classics, 2005)
  11. A Woman in Amber.  Agate Nesaule (Penguin, 1995)
  12. The Stalin Revolution.  Robert Daniels  (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
  13. Siberia on Fire.  Valentin Rasputin (Northern Illinois, 1989)
  14. A Week Like Any Other. Natalya Baranskaia
  15. The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years.  Chingiz Aitmatov (Indiana Univ. Press, 1988)
  16. Omon Ra.  Victor Pelevin (New Directions Publishing Corp., 1998)

Rob’s  Workshop Participants only:  Please purchase the following texts:

  1. The Russian Empire.  Andreas Kappeler (Longman, 2001)
  2. A State of Nations.  Ronald Grigor Suny and Terry Martin, eds.  (Oxford, 2001)
  3. Russian Nationalism since 1856.  Astrid Tuminez (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)

TEXT FOR BEGINNING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE STUDENTS

Main language text:  Nachalo, Book One (packaged with Workbook One.) 
Ervin, McLellan, Lubensky, Jarvis (The McGraw-Hill Co., 2002/03)

Recommended:

  1. English Grammar for Students of Russian. Edwina Cruise (Olivia and Hill Press, 1993)
  2. Russian Fundamentals: Basic Grammar & Vocabulary – Essential Verbs – Common Idioms/ Expanded Folding Card (Eli L. Hinkle, Barrons Educational Series)

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