Russia and Eurasia: Empires and Enduring Legacies
Fall, Winter, Spring, 2010-2011

REQUIRED TEXTS FOR WINTER 2010-11

Because we will examine these texts closely, and to avoid complications from varying pagination, we prefer that you either buy or find library copies of the editions as listed below, all of which are available for purchase at the campus bookstore. You may be able to find the same editions at better prices through various on-line dealers such as abebooks.com, half.com, amazon.com, etc.

Students joining the program in winter term should read at a minimum pp. 1-352 in Hosking, below.

NOTE: Books labeled with an * will be used for more than one term. Note also that the TESC bookstore routinely orders fewer copies of each book than faculty request, so to make absolutely certain that you have the books you need in time to prepare them for the assigned classes, consider ordering early and on-line. Ordering takes time. Plan ahead so that you can receive your books ON TIME. Students are required to come to seminar prepared with the reading done and with the book IN HAND.

(in approximate reading order)

  1. *Russia and the Russians: A History.  Geoffrey Hosking (Harvard U. Press, 2003)
  2. *Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Former Soviet Union.   R. Milner-Gulland (Checkmark Books, 1998)
  3. *A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism.  Andrzej Walicki (Stanford U.        Press, 1979)
  4. *Russia Under the Old Regime.  Richard Pipes (Viking Penguin, 1997)
  5. The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil.  Nicolai Gogol (W. W. Norton)
  6. A Life under Russian Serfdom: The Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii 1800-1868, Trans. Boris  B. Gorshkov (Central European Press)
  7. Fathers and Children.  Ivan Turgenev (W. W. Norton)
  8. Notes from the Underground.  Fyodor Dostoevsky (W. W. Norton, critical edition)
  9. Crime and Punishment.  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (W. W. Norton, critical edition)
  10. Tent Life in Siberia.  George Kennan (Univ. of Pacific Press)
  11. Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy.  Lev Tolstoy (Harper and Row) 
  12. Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories.  Anton Chekhov, ed. Ralph Matlaw (W.W. Norton, critical edition)
  13. My Childhood.  Maxim Gorky (Penguin)
  14. The Communist Manifesto.  Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Oxford Univ. Press)

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