TY  - ADVS
AU  - Weil,Irwin
ED  - Teaching Company.
TI  - Classics of Russian literature
T2  - The great courses
SN  - 1598031864
AV  - DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chantilly, VA
PB  - Teaching Co.
KW  - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,
KW  - Tolstoy, Leo,
KW  - Russian literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
N1  - In three parts (containers). Each part consists of twelve lectures on two discs; pt. 1. (discs 1-2) (lectures 1-12); Origins of Russian literature; Curch and the folk in Old Kiev; Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799-1837; Exile, rustic seclusion, and Onegin; December's uprising and two poets meet; Poet contrasts talent versus mediocrity; St. Petersburg glorified and death embraced; Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', 1809-1852; Russian grotesque, overcoats to dead souls; Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821-1881; Near mortality, prison, and an underground; Second wife and a great crime novel begins --; pt. 2. (discs 3-4) (lectures 13-24); Inside the troubled mind of a criminal; Generation of the Karamazovs; Novelistic presence of Christ and Satan; Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910; Tale of two cities and a country home; Family life meets military life; Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord; Family life makes a comeback; Tolstoy the preacher; Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818-1883; Stresses between two generations; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860-1904 --; pt. 3. (discs 5-6) (lectures 25-36); M. Gorky (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 1868-1936; Literature and revolution; Tribune - Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893-1930; Revolution makes a u-turn; Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905-1984; Revolutions and civil war; Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895-1958; Among the godless - religion and family life; Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960; Poet in and beyond society; Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, born 1918; Many colors of Russian literature; Professor Irwin Weil
N2  - Thirty six lectures by Irwin Weil, of Northwestern University, exploring the history of Russian literature from its origins through the twentieth century
ER  -