20th Century Russian literature

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20th Century Russian literature

• Bethany and Garett

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Intro

• Russian Revolution
• March 8, 1817 - November 8,1817
• Influenced new beginnings in literature
• Soviet Union

• http//www.allcountries.org/maps/ussr_maps.html

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Tolstoy

• Born
• Died
• Well known books
• Later wrote plays and short stories
• His style of writing

• http//ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/???????,_???_????????
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Tolstoy

• Used personal experiences
• Characters reflected himself
• Changed his style

• http//www.biography.com/people/leo-tolstoy-950851
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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

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Pasternak

• Birth and death dates
• Career titles
• Well known pieces
• Nobel Prize
• Style

• http//www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/08/russi
  a

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Soviet restrictions

• Politics and literature
• Governmental restrictions in literature
• Exile of many authors
• Literature groups

• http//filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/tag/ussr/

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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

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Post-thaw

• Authors exiled once again
• Many books not published
• Rejected Soviet ideology
• Samizdat

• http//blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/moderneurope/kat
  ie-k-2/

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Works Cited

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_literaturePo
  pular_genres
• http//www.allcountries.org/maps/ussr_maps.html
• http//ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/???????,_???_????????
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• http//www.biography.com/people/leo-tolstoy-950851
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• 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/