To other weekly assignments: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [12], [13], [14].
READINGS:
George. St. Petersburg: Russia's Window to the Future.... Chapter 12: "The February Revolution," "The Road to Red October"(pp.434-448). [14pp.]
Massie. Nicholas and Alexandra. Chpts. 27-29 [44pp]
Knopf. St. Petersburg [Guide] (pp.33, 131-132, 246-251, 294)
WEB TOPICS:
READINGS:
George. St. Petersburg: Russia's Window to the Future.... Chapter 12: "Red Petrograd During the Civil War," "Spirits in the Material World (Part I) (pp.448-464) [16pp]
Blok. "The Twelve" [xerox]
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Supplemental (optional) Material:
READINGS:
George. St. Petersburg: Russia's Window to the Future.... Chapter 12: "Leningrad and Stalin," "The Terror in Leningrad," "The Revenge of Muscovy" (pp.479-494) [15pp]
Knopf. St. Petersburg [Guide]. (pp.34-35, 48-49, 94-96, 133-134, 242-243) [12pp.]
Akhmatova's "Requiem" [xerox]
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Back to the main Petersburg course page.
Back to the Russian at St. Lawrence Page.
last update: 4/4/04
MONDAY - April 5
Russia. Online book (chpt.7) by William M. Brinton. (Discusses the
early part of the 20th century in some detail).
Modern World History: Russia in Revolution. Brief summary of the
events and causes. From BBC Education.
Early Twentieth-Century Russian Theater. Great site with information
on plays, designers, directors and impressarios, and various art movements.
From Northwestern.edu.
15 March, 1917: Abdication of Nicholas II. Document from the
World War I Document Archive.
Manifesto. Including a brief discussion of the chain of events
leading up to the Manifesto. Pictures of the new government leaders.
From clinet (Finland).
The First Provisional Government. Statement from Izvestia
3 March 1917. (From the Durham University site.)
Alexander Kerensky. Links and original sources. From
"www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk."
Alexander Kerensky. Photo and a brief bio from "Fortune City."
The Russian Revolution. By David Barnsdale. Links to many sites on
the Revolution.
Museum of Communism. "Lenin and the First Communist
Revolution." Professor Brian Caplan, Dept
of Economics, George Mason University "curator."
The Russian Revolution of 1917. Text by G. Rempel.
*Lenin Internet Archive. Works. Biography. Images.
*Lenin Museum. Index. . Museum in Red Square. Pictures. Links.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Articles and images.
Vladimir Il'ich Lenin. Home Page. ©Mc.Fozzy 1996-1998.
Vladimir Ilych Lenin. A biographical sketch by A. V. Lunacharsky.
Lenin's testatment. Lenin's directive to the Party to
remove Stalin (made just before Lenin's death).
From Stalinism: Its Origins & Future by Andy Blunden, 1993.
Lenin. Hear Lenin speaking to the meeting of Russian Councils.
From Funet Russian Archive.
Vladimir Ilich Lenin. Links to articles he wrote, photos. (From
"Progressive Sociology Network" home page, Univeristy of Colorado,
Boulder, Glenn W. Muschert.) Lenin Internet Archive.
Lenin. Painting by V. Serov. From Funet Russian Archive.
Krupskaya. Hear Lenin's wife speak. From Funet Russian Archive.
TUESDAY - April 6
Akhmatova. "The Prayer" and other poems [xerox]
Zamiatin's story "The Cave" [xerox]
The Last Days of the Romanovs; The Civil War and Intervention
Chayanov and Social Agronomy in Russia, 1918. Article by
F. Sonchez de Puerta on Lenin's reforms.
Attacks on Intelligentsia: Early Attacks. From the
Library of Congress "Soviet Archives Exhibit".
Attacks on Intelligentsia: Renewed Attacks. From the
Library of Congress "Soviet Archives Exhibit".
Attacks on Intelligentsia: Censorship. From the
Library of Congress "Soviet Archives Exhibit".
Attacks on Intelligentsia: Supressing Dissidents. From
the Library of Congress "Soviet Archives Exhibit".
The New Economic Policy. Page maintained by Professor Gerhard Rempel,
Western New England College.
Lenin's N.E.P.. A page from Professor Joseph V. O'Brien, CUNY.
Storming of the Winter Palace. Picture on George Mitrevsky's site at
Auburn University.
Mark Twain and the Gorky Debacle. By Jim Zwick.
Creative Quotations from Maxim Gorky. (Noted by Franklin C. Baer.)
Time for "Untimely Thoughts". By Olga Rusanova. [Scroll down (don't
click on the title) to this section (a few paragraphs) on
the celebration of Gorky's 130th anniversary from his birth.]
Maksim Gorky (1868-1936). Brief introduction to his work.
The Shekhtel House Maxim Gorky Museum). A couple of pictures and
brief text. (Copyright Seanet Corporation.)
Photograph of author Maxim Gorky. (on the left, with literary
critic Vladimir Stasov and artist Ilya Repin).
Chekhov and Gorky. Photograph from "Funet"
Gorky's Mother. an excerpt from a senior honors thesis by
Kevin D. Werbach, University of California at Berkeley.
Confronting Life. A sketch by Gorky. (Posted at the University
of Virginia Library.)
Avant-garde. Avant-Garde and Russian Art, 1900-1930. Copyright
(C) 1998 The State Russian Museum.
Malevich,Kasimir. From WebMuseum Paris. Contributors:
Mark Harden and Carol Gerten-Jackson. Some of Malevich's
works, plus links to "Cubism," "Futurism" etc.
Malevich. Long list of links to paintings (with brief descriptions),
with some
links to some of his works which you can
resize to fit your screen. At the Artchive.
The Commissar of Space. By John Goto. Reflections on M's final
year's in Stalinist Russia.
Architect Vladimir Tatlin. Very brief Biography.
Monument to the Third International. An architectural icon. Various views of the project.
Model for the 3rd International Tower, 1919-1920. From Russian art site at Auburn U.
Tatlin - Relief. Artwork.
Vladimir Tatlin - Female Model. Artwork.
Vsevolod Meyerhold. Biography. Pictures. From Early Twentieth Century Russian Drama.
Vsevolod Meyerhold. From the Meyerhold Memorial Museum.
The bio-mechanical system of Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold... Explained and amplified.
Meyerhold and the Theatre Theatrical. From TheatreHistory.com.
*An Amazing Creative Outburst: Four ballets by Stravinsky. On
Firebird, Petroushka, Rite of Spring, Apollo. Text by Max Harrion.
*Igor Stravinsky. Biographical information, introduction to
some of his religious works, link to online soundclips, links, etc.
From Victor Huang.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971). A few links from Pasi Nousiainen.
Igor Stravinsky. Time Magazine's salute to one of the
100 most important people (for the arts) of the century.
*Igor Stravinsky. A bit about the composer along with links.
Copyright © 1995-1998 by L.D. Lampson & Classical Net.
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). .K.). All these were written after Stravinsky's 70th birthday, and he
continued to compose into his mid-80s, also conducting
concerts and making many gramophone records of his music. During this period, too, he and Craft
published several volumes
of conversations. Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise
Dictionary of Music
Igor Stravinsky - Picture Gallery. Nine photos and sketches.
Presented by Matt Boynick.
The "
Interviews." A section of Maksim Moshkow's site (in Russian); at the bottom of
the page there are many links to interviews (in English) with Nabokov. They include...
*Zembla - the Nabokov Butterfly Net. Links to such thing as:
current events, special features, scholarly resources (including
a link to his homes and haunts), Nabokov sights, etc. Some sections not to miss:
Nabokov. Ardis Picture Archives.
A Soviet Heretic: Yevgeny Zamyatin. A brief book review by Danny Yee.
*Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky 1893-1930. Collection of his poems (includes sound files);
Timeline; links to other Mayakovsky pages. From the Poet Page (Northwestern University).
*Mayakovsky and His Circle. Leads to his room, links
to his poems, cinema, pictures, graphic designs,
sound. From Mayakovsky.com.
The State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky. Take a tour, see pictures, read some
lines of his poetry.
Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich (1895-1925). From "Spin Frog".
Isadore Duncan, Dance Performance. Wife of Esenin...a picture of
the couple on this page. From National Association of Artists Organizations.
Sergei Esenin. Complete collection of his poetry [in Russian! Koi8]
*Boris Leonidovich Pasternak. About him and his works and including a bilingual collection of his
poetry. From the Poet Page.
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960). A little bit about him, a picture, and
his poem "The Nobel Prize". From the page "Rich Geib's Heroes".
The Twelve - Alexander Blck. Translation by Avril Pyman, 1989. (Also available in Russian at this
site.)
*Aleksander Aleksandrovich Blok. From the "Poet Page." Includes pictures and poems.
Includes some poems read aloud. (Bilingual Anthology)
Poetic Artistry and Political Ambiguity: Pushkin and Blok Remain Objective and Balanced.
Essay by John Kennedy on Blok's "The Twelve" and Pushkin's "Bronze Horseman".
THURSDAY - April 8
Zoshchenko's tales (small selection) [xerox]
Ilf and Petrov "How the Soviet Robinson Was Made" [xerox]
The Cult of Stalin. Student project by Jake Fey. (St. Lawrence University,
1997).
Soviet Archives Entrance Room. Library of Congress Soviet Archives
Exhibit. The "First Floor" part of the exhibit has some pages on "Repression and
Terror," "The Gulag," etc.
Another View of Stalin. Book by Ludo Martens. [Read the
section that interests you most from the table of contents.]
Josef Stalin. Links to articles and pictures by Ken Campbell.
Was Stalinism implicit in October? A Green View on the Bolshevik Revolution.
Article by David Barnsdale (some sections of which are referred to below).
Transport Department. On the Kirov murder and purges.
A page from the "Soviet Archives Exhibit."
Attacks on Intelligentsia: Renewed Attacks. [Read this particular
section]
from the "Soviet Archives Exhibit."]
Collectivization and Industrialization. A page from the Soviet Archives
Exhibit at the Library of Congress. Includes: a memo on the collectivization
of livestock; a letter on the conditions of the kolkhoz farms; a memorandum
about kolkhoz conditions; an order for a hanging.
Collectivization. from the book Another View of Stalin.
by Ludo Martens.
Ukrainian Famine. From the Soviet Archives Exhibit at the
Library of Congress. Includes a letter on the grain problem.
Repression and Terror: Stalin in Control. A page from the Soviet Archives
Exhibit at the Library of Congress. Includes: letter from Rykov; speech of
Bukharin; study of Kirov's murder.
Attacks on Intelligentsia. A page from the Soviet
Archives Exhibit at the Library of Congress. Includes: a letter to Gorky;
Marietta Shaginian's novel condemned; list of persons (whose works
were to be elimintated); and a statistical report... (along with later
documents on the dissidents). [Read some more of this page...if you haven't
already read it all (see above).]
Jewish Antifascist Committee. A page from the Soviet Archives
Exhibit (Library of Congress). Includes a document about the
Jewish Antifascist Committee.
Terror. A section from the article "Was Stalinism Implicit in October.
Green view on the Bolshevik Revolution" by David Barnsdale.
Deportations. Forcible resettlement of minority peoples. A page from the
Soviet Archives Exhibit at the Library of Congress. Includes a document
on the Crimean Tatars.
Secret Police. A page from the Soviet Archives Exhibit at the
Library of Congress. Includes an article on the "United Press" from
the secret archive of the Central Committee.
Anti-Religious Campaigns. A page from the Soviet Archives Exhibit
at the Library of Congress. Includes: a letter from Gorky to Stalin;
and a letter from Lenin.
The Gulag. From the Library of Congress Soviet Archives
Exhibit.
Who was the architecht of the "Cult of Stalin"?. Book review.
Merrily We Control Along...". Book Review of Thank You, Comrade
Stalin by Jeffrey Brooks.
Virtual Museum of Political Art. A private collection by Patrick
Horvath and Prim. Dr. Werner Horvath. (political t-shirts here!)
Agit-Theater. From M. Denner at Northwestern U. Includes a
video clip from one of the mass productions.
Russians Find Sweet Escape in Soviet Celluloid. Article by David Hoffman, Washington Post Foreign Service (May 21, 1997) p.A25.
Lenfilm's Fall From Grace. Article by John O'Mahony. (From the St. Petersburg
Times, 1998.
Eisenstein and Cartoon Sound. Article by Douglas Kahn, artist and
writer, Associate Professor in Arts and Sciences at Arizona State
University West.
Sergei M. Eisenstein. His "filmography" (i.e. list of his films and
his work).
[Review some of these sites!]
*Anna Andreevna Akhmatova. From the Ends to the Beginning. Includes
a time line of Akhmatova's life, links to sound files and bilingual
texts, links to other sites on Akhmatova.
(Poet Page of www.russianpoet.net.)
Anna Akhmatova. A little information, several poems (in translation),
and a few links from Liz Keslo.
The Anna Akhmatova Museum at Fountain House. Some information
about Akhmatova and where she lived. Including information on
Anna Akmatova in Portraits by her Contemporaries. Homepage of Fountain House.
Akhmatova, Anna. A short biography of this poet. From the Odessa
site.
Anna Akhmatova. A short biography from the Academy of American Poets
home page. (Also a link to the poem "In Memory of M.B." read by S. Kunitz.
and some other links to Akhmatova sites).
Anna Akhmatova. A brief note and bibliography. From Kuusankosken kaupunginkirjasto.
Mikhail M. Zoshchenko. Brief biographical note by Clarence Brown.
Attacks on Intelligentsia: Renewed Attacks. A little bit about the
suppressive atmostphere after WWII in which Zoshchenko wrote.
From the Soviet Archives Exhibit at the Library of Congress.
Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. Brief introduction from Odessa Web.
Evgeny Petrov. Picture of Petrov from Odessaglobe site.
Ilya Ilf. Picture of Ilf from Odessaglobe site.
*Russian Lubok. Popular print books. Site developed by Alexander
Boguslawski
*Neo-Realism to Socialist Realiam. From Northwestern.edu.
[Follow the next page arrow to the end of this topic.]
*Virtual Museum of Political Art: Socialist Realism. A private
collection by Patrick Horvath and Prim. Dr. Werner Horvath. Go to their
*Slide Show
for a visual demonstration of what Socialist Realism "looks" like.
*New Gallery. A site specializing in Soviet Art (Socialist Realism)
1920's-1950's. Paintings, drawings, posters.
