REQUIRED READINGS AND FILM VIEWINGS

On sale in University Bookstore:

David Remnick, Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. Vintage Books, 1994.
Viktor Pelevin, Omon Ra. New Directions / Penguin

Other readings are to be found in the course packet on sale at the Laurier Office Mart, 226, Laurier Ave. East. They are (in order of reading):

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “Matryona’s Home.”
In: Patricia Blake and Max Hayward (eds.), Half-way to the Moon (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964), pp. 51-91.

Tatiana Tolstaya, “Women’s Lives.”
In: Tatiana Tolstaya, Pushkin’s Children, pp. 1-13

Andrei Sakharov, “The Democratic Vision.”
Robert V. Daniels (ed.), Soviet Communism from Reform to Collapse (D.C. Heath, 1995), pp. 17-25.

Mikhail Gorbachev, “The Revolutionary Promise.”
Robert V. Daniels (ed.), Soviet Communism from Reform to Collapse (D.C. Heath, 1995), pp. 69-82.

Sergei Dovlatov, The Suitcase (Grove Weidenfeld, 1990), pp. 3-34.

Joseph Brodsky, “Less than One.”
In: Joseph Brodsky, Less than One, Selected Essays (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1986), pp. 3-33.

Films:
Vladimir Menshov, Moscow does not believe in tears
Nikita Mikhalkov, 12.

You are also responsible for the readings given in links on the syllabus page.