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

[mclellan at PRINCETON.EDU]

Dear Nicole,

How about Solzhenitsyn's famous Harvard commencement address?  It  
touches on themes that have come up in the post-soviet period and  
would almost certainly challenge them.   My 50 kopeek.

Frank
On Apr 25, 2007, at 1:37 PM, 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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