Works and Criticism

This section examines specific literary works in a critical light. It also includes several academic works that examine literary history and/or the cultural significance of specific literature.

October 31, 2012

Кем Быть: Whom Shall I Be: Children’s Literature; A Reflection on the Uncertainties of the Early Soviet Pedagogical Experimentation

Children’s literature of the Soviet Union never failed to mirror the volatile political climate of the Soviet state. Between the end of the civil war (1917-1922) and the rise of Stalinism (1929-1953), the Soviet leadership introduced various pedagogical innovations for educating and socializing a generation of socialist youth. As the leadership had no previous experience […]

Works and Criticism

Кем Быть: Whom Shall I Be: Children’s Literature; A Reflection on the Uncertainties of the Early Soviet Pedagogical Experimentation

Redemption for Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: A Comparative Analysis

Russian Literature in Kyrgyzstan at the Beginning of the 21st Century: A Reflection of the Social, Spiritual, and Moral State of Society

Gogol’s ‘The Portrait’ and Russian Orthodox Iconography

Nabokov vs. Набоков: A Literary Investigation of Linguistic Relativity

Mind/Body, Jewish/Russian: Identity Fragmentation in Isaac Babel’s “Story of My Dovecote”

‘Irrational’ Rebellions Against Socialist Realism: Czech and Russian Variations on the Legend of Faust

Unifying the Christian Ontology of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Seven Days in April (on “The Bishop” by A. Chekhov)