20th Century Russian 20th Century Russian literature literature

Bethany and Garett Bethany and Garett

Intro • Russian Revolution

• March 8, 1817 - November 8,1817

• Influenced new beginnings in literature

• Soviet Union

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

Tolstoy

• Born

• Died

• Well known books

• Later wrote plays and short stories

• His style of writing • http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Толстой,_

Лев_Николаевич

Tolstoy

• Used personal experiences

• Characters reflected himself

• Changed his style • http://www.biography.com/people/leo-tolsto

y-9508518

Solzhenitsyn • Birth and death

• Career title

• Well known pieces

• Nobel Prize award

• Trouble with Soviet Union • http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/

books/04solzhenitsyn.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Pasternak

• Birth and death dates

• Career titles

• Well known pieces

• Nobel Prize

• Style • http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/08

/russia

Soviet restrictions

• Politics and literature

• Governmental restrictions in literature

• Exile of many authors

• Literature groups

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

Krushchev Thaw

• Mid 1950s - early 1960s

• Soviet restrictions lifted

• Many released from Gulag labor camps

• Nikita Krushchev

• http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Nikita_Khrushchev

Post-thaw

• Authors exiled once again

• Many books not published

• Rejected Soviet ideology

• Samizdat

• http://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/moderneurope/katie-k-2/

Works Cited

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_literature#Popular_genres

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

• http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Толстой,_Лев_Николаевич

• http://www.biography.com/people/leo-tolstoy-9508518

• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Works cited • http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/

jun/08/russia

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

• http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Nikita_Khrushchev

• http://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/moderneurope/katie-k-2/