Classics of Russian Literature

Lecture 36 - The Many Colors of Russian Literature

Lecture 35 - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Born 1918

Lecture 34 - The Poet In and Beyond Society

Lecture 33 - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890–1960

Lecture 32 - Among the Godless—Religion and Family Life

Lecture 31 - Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895–1958

Lecture 30 - Revolutions and Civil War

Lecture 29 - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905–1984

Lecture 28 - The Revolution Makes a U-Turn

Lecture 27 - The Tribune—Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893–1930

Lecture 26 - Literature and Revolution

Lecture 25 - M. Gorky Aleksei M. Peshkov, 1868–1936

Lecture 24 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860–1904

Lecture 23 - The Stresses between Two Generations

Lecture 22 - Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818–1883

Lecture 21 - Tolstoy the Preacher

Lecture 20 - Family Life Makes a Comeback

Lecture 19 - Vengeance Is Mine, Saith the Lord

Lecture 18 - Family Life Meets Military Life

Lecture 17 - Tale of Two Cities and a Country Home

Lecture 16 - Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828–1910

Lecture 15 - The Novelistic Presence of Christ and Satan

Lecture 14 - The Generation of the Karamazovs

Lecture 13 - Inside the Troubled Mind of a Criminal

Lecture 12 - Second Wife and a Great Crime Novel Begins

Lecture 11 - Near Mortality, Prison, and an Underground

Lecture 10 - Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821–1881

Lecture 09 - Russian Grotesque—Overcoats to Dead Souls

Lecture 08 - Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol’, 1809–1852

Lecture 07 - St. Petersburg Glorified and Death Embraced