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Dead Souls: Dead Souls, novel by Nikolay Gogol, published in Russian as Myortvye dushi in 1842. This picaresque work, considered one of the world’s finest satires, traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune.

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky. 1821-1881. Nationality: Russian Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia Place of Death: St. Petersburg, Russia Table of Contents: Personal Writings by the Author

A small press specializing in world literature and poetry in English and translation from Russian, East/Central European languages, Korean, and Chinese.

The Significance and Impact of Russian Thought: 12 theses. 1. In the modern epoch, Russia was the first non-Western nation to challenge Eurocentric historical models and cultural canons, such as rationalism, legalism, individualism, and offer an alternative model of civilization (the dispute between Slavophiles and Westernizers).

Jun 29, 2010 · After years of F.B.I. surveillance, investigators decided to make the arrests last weekend, just after an upbeat visit to President Obama by the Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, said one administration official.

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

The terms “Putinism” and “Putinist” often have negative connotations when used in Western media to reference the Russian government under Putin where siloviki, the military-security establishment, controls much of the political and financial power.

T LIT 101 Understanding Literature (5) VLPA Develops essential tools for close and informed reading of fiction, drama, and poetry. Considers how a text generates aesthetic pleasure, how it achieves moral or social impact. Develops skills in literary analysis through reading literary texts, through

Russian Philosophy. This article provides a historical survey of Russian philosophers and thinkers. It emphasizes Russian epistemological concerns rather than ontological and ethical concerns, hopefully without neglecting or disparaging them.