Good short primary text(s) for reflections on the end of Soviet Union / culture?

[Nicole Monnier]

Dear SEELANGStsy,

I've gotten all the way to the last week but one of my 20th century Russian
& Soviet culture course and haven't the FOGGIEST idea what I should assign
as a final, primary text reading (or readings) on the end of it all / the
beginning of it all. We've just done Gorby and are watching Mikhalkov's
egregious (but useful) "Anna from 6 to 18", but I still need something else
to force my children (mostly uninterested business majors!) to read for the
last week of the course.

Throughout the course, I've assigned everything from songs, poems, short
stories, manifestoes (artistic / political / whatever), Party "documents",
images, letters to the editor, essays - which is to say I'm open to any sort
of "document" as long as it can be considered a "primary" one (that is, not
scholarly articles).

Not only would I be eternally grateful for good suggestions, but I'll go so
far as to offer the bribe of a cup of coffee at the next big conference to
anyone who can supply me with an 11th-hour (or more precisely, week 15!)
text to post hastily upon my electronic reserve page at week's end!

Nicole


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Dr. Nicole Monnier
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
German & Russian Studies
415 GCB
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

phone: 573.882.3370

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