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

[Seifer Donna]

Check out Glas: New Russian Writing.  The latest is "War & Peace
Contemporary Russian Prose." Wonderful short stories.
Films I would recommend include: Window to Paris, Burnt by the Sun, Prisoner
of the Mountains, and especially for business majors, Barber of Siberia!

Regards,
Donna Seifer
-- 
Instructor in Russian Language & Culture
Lewis & Clark College
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road
Portland, OR 97219
Tel: 503-768-7179
seifer at clark.edu


On 4/25/07 10:37 AM, "Nicole Monnier" <monniern at MISSOURI.EDU> 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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> Dr. Nicole Monnier
> Assistant Professor of Instruction
> Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
> German & Russian Studies
> 415 GCB
> University of Missouri
> Columbia, MO 65211
> 
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