Resources  

 
Sources for Oral Reports
 
Some of the works pertaining to the topics and authors we are studying this semester include:
 
General Works
 
Mirsky, D. S. A History of Russian Literature. 1949
Brown, Edward J. Russian Literature Since the Revolution. 1982.
Riasanovsky, Nicholas. A History of Russia. 1984.
Terras, Victor. Handbook of Russian Literature. 1985. (in reference department)
Billington, James H. The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture, 1966.
 
Thematic Books
 
Hertzler, Joyce Oramel. The History of Utopian Thought, 1965.
Manuel, Frank E. Utopias and Utopian Thought, 1966
Krishan, Kumar. Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times. 1987.
Hollis III, Daniel W. The ABC-Clio World History Companion to Utopian Movememts.
 
Books/chapters on individual authors
 
Aristocratic Rebels: The Decembrists and Petrashevtsy (a chapter in: Julicher, Peter. Renegades, Rebels and Rogues Under the Tsars, 2001) pp. 155-181. DK 61 .J85 2003
Cornwell, Neil. Vladimir Odoevskii and romantic poetics. 1998 PG 3337 .O3 Z62 1998
Lantz, Kenneth, The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia. 2004 PG 3328 .A09 L36 2004 Non-Circulating (an article "Utopia (The Golden Age)" pp. 449-454)
Morson, Gary Saul, The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky`s Diary of a Writer and the Traditions of Literary Utopia, 1981.
Cooke, Brett. Human Nature in Utopia: Zamyatin’s We. 2002 PG 3476 .Z34 M9334 2002
Clowes, Edith, "From beyond the abyss: Nietzschean myth in Zamiatin`s We and Pasternak`s Doctor Zhivago. In: Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer (ed.). Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and adversary, 1994.
Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer, New Myth, New World: From Nietzsche to Stalinism. ("Concretizing the Myth: New Cult, New Man, New Morality." 183-209)
Wegner, Philip E. Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity 2002.
Clowes, Edith W. Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology after Utopia. 1993 PG 3096 .U94 C56 1993
 
 
Web resources:
 
Online library of Russian literature: www.lib.ru
 
Russian literature resource guide http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/slavic/lit.htm
 
 
Sci-Fi archive (Thomas More): http://archivsf.narod.ru/persona/mor/mor_t.htm
 
On the Decembrists: http://decemb.hobby.ru/
 
Sci-Fi archive (Vladimir Odoevskii): http://archivsf.narod.ru/persona/odoevsky/odoevsky.htm
                                                                   http://www.nlr.ru:8101/persons/odoev.htm
 
Dostoyevsky Research Station:  http://www.kiosek.com/dostoevsky/
 
 
 

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