Answers must be written in Russian except in the case of question regarding translation from Russian to English.
Paper I: Language and Culture
Section A
Modern Russian Language: Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Lexicology, Lexicography and Semantics, linguistics
Translation from Russian into English and vice-versa
Section B
Socio-political and economical development of the Russian Federation: Patriotic war of 1812, October Revolution, Perestroika and Glasnost, disintegration of USSR. Regional & Cultural variations of the Russian Federation
Essay on general topics
Paper II
Section A
Literary History and Literary Criticism
Literary movements, Sentimentalism, Romanticism, Naturalism, Realism, Critical Realism, Socialism, Acmeism, Symbolism, Futurism
Origin and development of literary genres: Folk literature, Lyrics and poems-A.S. Pushkin, M.U. Lermontov, Alexander Blok, Esenin, V. Mayakovky, Anna Akhmatova. Epic-L.N. Tolstoy, M. Sholokhov, Short story, novelet, novels-Pushkin, Lermontov, N.V. Gogol, S. Shchedrin, I. Goncharov, I. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, A.P. Chekhov, M. Gorky, M. Sholokhov, I. Bunin, E. Zamyatin, Boris Pasternak, A. Solzhenitsyn, M. Bulgakov, Chingiz Aitmatov, V. Rasputin, V. Shukshin, Criticism-Belinsky, Dobrolyubov, Chernyshevsky, Pisarev, Drama-Chekhov, Gogol
Influence of socio-political movements on literature.
Section B
This part will require first hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the candidates’ critical ability.
A.S. Pushkin: Evgeny Onegin
M.U. Lermontov: Hero of our times
N.V. Gogol: Revizor
I.S. Turgenev: Fathers and sons
F.M. Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
L.N. Tolstoy: War and Peace, Resurrection
A.P. Chekhov: Toska
Smert Chinovnika: Chameleon
A.M. Gorky: Mother
A. Blok: The twelve
B.B Mayakovsky: Cloud in plants, Good
M. Sholokhov: Fate of a man
B. Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
Solzhenitsyn: One day in the life of Ivan Danisovich
V. Rasputin: Zhivi i Pomni
Chingiz Aitmatov: Bely Porokhod
V. Shukshin: Chudik
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