Help with Russian Studies at Colby
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Please contact your librarian for help in researching topics about Russian, post-Soviet, or Eurasian studies. Karen Gillum kjgillum@colby.edu |
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Good resources for language learning are listed on the Russian Program's website (and here).
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Databases for Russian
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowA good general resource for the study of Russian literature.
- Current Digest of the Russian Press This link opens in a new windowOnline access to the Current Digest of the Russian Press, a weekly collection of English-translated Russian press materials, with archives going back to 1949.
Books, Don't Forget Books!
The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature by Call Number: PG2951 .E47 2008ISBN: 9780521844697Publication Date: 2008-07-10An introduction to themes in Russian literature, from folklore to Gogol, Chekhov, and Solzhenitsyn.
Written in Blood by
Written in Blood offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb exploded. In March 1881, Russia stunned the world when a small band of revolutionaries calling themselves "terrorists" assassinated the Tsar-Liberator, Alexander II. Horrified Russians blamed the influence of European political and social ideas, while shocked Europeans perceived something new and distinctly Russian in a strategy of political violence that became known the world over as "terrorism" or "the Russian method." Lynn Ellen Patyk contends that the prototype for the terrorist was the Russian writer, whose seditious word was interpreted as an audacious deed--and a violent assault on autocratic authority. The interplay and interchangeability of word and deed, Patyk argues, laid the semiotic groundwork for the symbolic act of violence at the center of revolutionary terrorism. While demonstrating how literary culture fostered the ethos, pathos, and image of the revolutionary terrorist and terrorism, she spotlights Fyodor Dostoevsky and his "terrorism trilogy"--Crime and Punishment (1866), Demons (1870-73), and The Brothers Karamazov (1878-80)--as novels that uniquely illuminate terrorism's methods and trajectory. Deftly combining riveting historical narrative with penetrating literary analysis of major and minor works, Patyk's groundbreaking book reveals the power of the word to spawn deeds and the power of literature to usher new realities into the world.
Call Number: PG2975 .P38 2017ISBN: 9780299312206Publication Date: 2017
Cold Fusion by
While historical and political aspects of the Russo-German relationship over the past three to four centuries have received due attention from scholars, the range of the far more diverse, important, and peculiar cultural relations still awaits full assessment. This volume shows how enriching these cultural influences were for both countries, affecting many spheres of intellectual and daily life such as philosophy and religion, education and ideology, sciences and their application, arts and letters, custom and language. The German-Russian relationship has always been particularly intense. Oscillating as it has between infatuation and contempt, it has always been marked by a singular paradox: a German cultural presence in Russia resulting either in a more or less complete fusion, as in the case of Russifield German, or in a pronounced mutual repulsion, accompanied by the denigration of each other's culture as inferior. It is this curious paradox that determines the perspectives of the articles that were specially written for this volume, providing it with a unifying focus.
Call Number: PG2981 .G3 C65 2000ISBN: 1571811885Publication Date: 2000
A Reference Grammar of Russian by Call Number: PG2112 .T53 2004ISBN: 0521772923Publication Date: 2004-01-22Advanced grammar in Russian: orthography, sounds, inflection, syntax, aspect, word order, and more.- Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age by This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era, beginning with the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, focusing then on literature's role in helping to shape cinema as a tool of official totalitarian culture during the Soviet period, and concluding with an examination of post-Soviet Russia's encounter with global television. As well as pioneering the exploration of this important new area in Slavic Studies, the book illuminates aspects of cultural theory by investigating how the Russian case affects general notions of literature's fate within post-literate culture, the ramifications of communism's fall for media globalization, and the applicability of text/image models to problems of intercultural change.Call Number: PG2987 .E56 H88 2004ISBN: 041530668XPublication Date: 2004
In Search of the True Russia by
Russia's provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation's cultural imagination. Lyudmila Parts looks at the contested place of the provinces in twenty-first-century Russian literature and popular culture, addressing notions of nationalism, authenticity, Orientalism, Occidentalism, and postimperial identity. Surveying a largely unexplored body of Russian journalism, literature, and film from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Parts finds that the harshest portrayals of the provinces arise within "high" culture. Popular culture, however, has increasingly turned from the newly prosperous, multiethnic, and westernized Moscow to celebrate the hinterlands as repositories of national traditions and moral strength. This change, she argues, has directed debate about Russia's identity away from its loss of imperial might and global prestige and toward a hermetic national identity based on the opposition of "us vs. us" rather than "us vs. them." She offers an intriguing analysis of the contemporary debate over what it means to be Russian and where "true" Russians reside.
Call Number: PG2987 .N27 P37 2018ISBN: 9780299317607Publication Date: 2018
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