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Title: 20th Century Russian literature


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20th Century Russian literature
  • Bethany and Garett

2
Intro
  • Russian Revolution
  • March 8, 1817 - November 8,1817
  • Influenced new beginnings in literature
  • Soviet Union
  • http//www.allcountries.org/maps/ussr_maps.html

3
Tolstoy
  • Born
  • Died
  • Well known books
  • Later wrote plays and short stories
  • His style of writing
  • http//ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/???????,_???_????????
    ??

4
Tolstoy
  • Used personal experiences
  • Characters reflected himself
  • Changed his style
  • http//www.biography.com/people/leo-tolstoy-950851
    8

5
Solzhenitsyn
  • Birth and death
  • Career title
  • Well known pieces
  • Nobel Prize award
  • Trouble with Soviet Union
  • http//www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzheni
    tsyn.html?pagewantedall_r0

6
Pasternak
  • Birth and death dates
  • Career titles
  • Well known pieces
  • Nobel Prize
  • Style
  • http//www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/08/russi
    a

7
Soviet restrictions
  • Politics and literature
  • Governmental restrictions in literature
  • Exile of many authors
  • Literature groups
  • http//filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/tag/ussr/

8
Krushchev Thaw
  • Mid 1950s - early 1960s
  • Soviet restrictions lifted
  • Many released from Gulag labor camps
  • Nikita Krushchev
  • http//www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Nikita_K
    hrushchev

9
Post-thaw
  • Authors exiled once again
  • Many books not published
  • Rejected Soviet ideology
  • Samizdat
  • http//blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/moderneurope/kat
    ie-k-2/

10
Works Cited
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_literaturePo
    pular_genres
  • http//www.allcountries.org/maps/ussr_maps.html
  • http//ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/???????,_???_????????
    ??
  • http//www.biography.com/people/leo-tolstoy-950851
    8
  • http//www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzheni
    tsyn.html?pagewantedall_r0

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Works cited
  • http//www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/08/russi
    a
  • http//filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/tag/ussr/
  • http//www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Nikita_K
    hrushchev
  • http//blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/moderneurope/kat
    ie-k-2/
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