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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:52:54 -0400
From: Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
Reply-To: "SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list"
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On Mar 13, 2007, at 9:10 PM, David Powelstock wrote:
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> Politicians have taken to publicizing “reading lists.” President Bush, we 
> were told, last summer was to read a comic historical novel on the first 
> Afghan war and Camus’s “The Stranger.” The Tory members of the British 
> Parliament were issued weighty books on Middle Eastern politics. But why is 
> no one reading Tolstoy’s novel “Hadji Murad”?
>

Lermontov's "Hero of Our Time" is also about the war with Chechens.




Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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Washington DC. 20016
(202) 885-2387	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu




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