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

[Edwina Cruise]

Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line.    Even though it was 
written in 1969, (1st published in 1977), it's the work I read last in 
my 20th culture + film class.  OR, a much saner suggestion, an essay by 
Brodsky.

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Nicole Monnier wrote:

>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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>Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
>German & Russian Studies
>415 GCB
>University of Missouri
>Columbia, MO 65211
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