Russian History
This event in 1918 changed the course of Russian history.
The Bolshevik Revolution
Initially called "The Drunkards"
Crime and Punishment
Marxism was...
a political/ social ideology which argues that history evolves along a certain trajectory. Marxists believe in social justice and the power of the worker.
"In his Notes from the House of the Dead, Dostoevsky never knew anyone from the true criminal world. He would never have allowed himself to express sympathy for that world.”
Kolyma Tales, Shalamov
Genre is a term used to define...
an artistic/ literary composition that has a particular form which may also strongly dictate the theme.
Known throughout as World War Two, in the Soviet Union it was called ...
The Great Patriotic War
"God Sees the Truth But Waits" was written by...
Lev Tolstoy
The Age of Machinery coincided with...
Modernism and the breakdown of nation-states.
"The basic principle I use for my decisions is this: Guilt is always beyond doubt."
In the Penal Colony, Kafka
A literary monument...
commemorates and/or memorializes an historic event with the additional goal of having readers make "literary pilgrimages" to the texts.
Known as the Liberator during Imperial Russia
Tsar Alexander II
This central character's name in Russian also means "split"
Raskolnikov
The 1939 Non-Agression Pact was made between...
Hitler and Stalin
"’Execution kills instantly, life-imprisonment kills by degrees. Who is the more humane executioner, one who kills you in a few seconds or one who draws the life out of you incessantly, for years?'"
"The Bet," Chekhov
In his Discipline and Punish, Foucault argues that punishments (whether of the body or the soul) is an indication of ...
power (authority).
This individual delivered a "Secret Speech" at the 20th Party Congress where he distanced himself from Stalin.
Khrushchev
This story presents a person's willing confinement in prison.
"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
Babi Yar was...
A ravine near Kiev where in 1941 33,700 Jews were shot and buried.
"All that smacked of books was forgotten. No one believed in books.”
Kolyma Tales, Shalamov
This literary genre in the Soviet Union was meant to edify people and present heroes as a politically consciousness citizens.
Socialist Realism
The Kitchen Debate was...
a quarrel between Nixon and Khrushchev about the efficacy of American consumerism
This story presents characters without names
In the Penal Colony, Kafka
Among many things, Cubism as a work of art reflects what about modern history...
the collapse of empires and social systems.
"Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare."
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
This literary work plays with time and in this way has been called a "short story in novel form."
Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.