16.7 2nd year, 16.7 3rd year Associate Professor J Armstrong. Normally Russian Literature & Society A or B. First semester A 2-hour seminar. By the end of the subject, students should be able to demonstrate:

• a thorough understanding of the cultural development of Russia and the Soviet Union to the period of glasnost;
• the ability to form critical opinions regarding the significance and value of Russian texts in a national and global context, to discuss these in a scholarly way and to communicate their knowledge to the surrounding community.

A study of Russian writing, centred on a core of novels, with background reading in literary theory, Soviet realism and the relationship between the society and its literature. No knowledge of Russian is necessary. A 2-hour paper; a 4000-word essay or a 2500-word essay and a class paper. Brown The Portable 20th C Russian Reader Penguin Bulgakov The Master and Margarita. Sholokhov Virgin Soil Upturned Penguin Zamyatin W. Departmental Collated Handout. 16.7 Associate Professor J Armstrong. Russian Literature & Society A or B. First semester. A 2-hour seminar each week By the end of the subject, students should be able to demonstrate:

• a thorough understanding of the cultural development of Russia and the Soviet Union to the period of glasnost;
• the ability to form critical opinions regarding the significance and value of Russian texts in a national and global context, to discuss these in a scholarly way and to communicate their knowledge to the surrounding community.

A study of Russian writing, centred on a core of novels, with background reading in literary theory, Soviet realism and the relationship between the society and its literature. No knowledge of Russian is necessary. A 2-hour paper; a 4000-word essay or a 2500-word essay and a class paper. Brown The Portable 20th C Russian Reader Penguin Bulgakov The Master and Margarita. Sholokhov Virgin Soil Upturned Penguin Zamyatin We Departmental Collated Handout.