RUS2103 / HIS2351 RUSSIA SINCE GORBACHEV: RECOMMENDED WEBSITES

Syllabus * Readings * Bibliography * Paper Topics* Paper Guidelines* Marks * Materials * Glossary * Links

General
http://www.yandex.ru Russian search engine Yandex - works in English too!
Post-Soviet Russian literature and culture (selected bibliography )

Authors
Brodsky, Joseph The official Nobel website on this important poet, with biographical information and his Nobel acceptance speech (1987).
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr A collection of links to biographical information, articles on Solzhenitsyn, bibliographies.
The official Nobel site about Solzhenitsyn containing biographical information and his Nobel acceptance speech.
Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address The online version of his 1978 address.
Tatyana Tolstaya A collection of articles by the author published in the New York Review of Books
Vysotsky's Songs in English A good collection of the best-known songs in passable translations.

Film and film-makers
Internet Movie Data Base All you wanted to know and more about any film or film-maker!
Masyanya
Russia's cool comic strip by Oleg Kuvayev. You need FlashPlayer to watch (and they're in Russian...but you'll get the idea).

News in English about Russia and the FSU
Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe
The CIA's take on Eastern Europe. Hopelessly Russophobic. Sends out daily and weekly news reports focussed on different topics and regions. You can subscribe and get them through your e-mail.
The Moscow Times The Moscow English-language newspaper has lots of good stories and analyses.
Pravda.ru The former Communist mouthpiece is now an independent with breaking news in Russian, English, Portuguese and Italian!
Russia Profile News, analysis and more. One of the best sources of analysis on Russian today.
Russian Today Russia's answer to Radio Liberty: dishes the dirt on the US.

Peace Prizes - official Nobel sites
These sites give biographical information on each laureate, plus their acceptance speech.
Gorbachev
Sakharov

Politics
The Kremlin Medvedev’s day-to-day activities, news releases, pics, etc.
The National-Bolshevik Party Website Russia's Extreme Left Party led by Eduard Limonov. Russian only.
Website of Yabloko Party This is the middle-of-the-road party led by Grigory Yavlinsky.
Constitution of Russian Federation (1993) Eltsyn's constitution as approved by referendum.
Russia Votes Detailed election results and analysis since 1993.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky The official website of present-day Russia's most famous prisoner.
Russian Analytical Digest The site contains regularly posted analyses of different aspects of Russian politics. You may subscribe, or simply download the reports you need.

Russian Pop and Rock
Far from Moscow The website on the contemporary rock, pop, punk and jazz scene in Russia. Maintained by UCLA professor David MacFadyen.

Twitter
Medvedev's English account: http://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE
Medvedev's Russian account: http://twitter.com/MedvedevRussia
The Kremlin's English account: http://twitter.com/KremlinRussia_E
The Kremlin's Russian account: http://twitter.com/KremlinRussia

Visual Arts - Socialist Realism
http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/visual_arts/painting/exhibits/socialist-realism.htm

Visual Arts - post-Soviet Realism
Komar and Melamid's SotsArt
Mikhail Shemiakin The emigre Russian sculptor and artist.