Author: Matej Kaniewski for Culture.pl Written in 1833, Alexander Pushkin’s Bronze Horseman kickstarted a new and unprecedented movement in Russian literature, known as the ‘Petersburg text’. It led ...

His Introduction to Russian Literature course regularly attracts up to 500 students, making it one of the most popular elective courses at Northwestern. America’s youth are widely assumed to be more ...

It is not for nothing that Soviet propaganda advertised the USSR as “the most well-read country in the world”–today, still, literature holds special significance for Russian speakers. We draw on some ...

I only read Russian writers, Boris Pasternak, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and my favorite, Alexander Ilyich Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn wrote of life under Stalin. Solzhenitsyn received the 1970 ...

Russian language and literature encompasses research topics ranging from historical linguistics and general linguistic theory to sociological phenomena of the contemporary language, and from the ...

The acclaimed Ukrainian author and essayist talks about his experience as a Soviet-born, Russian-speaking novelist, the ...

Northwestern Libraries published a new research journal, Northwestern University Studies in Russian Philosophy, Literature and Religious Thought, debuting it Monday afternoon in University Library.

We offer 4 years of Russian language studies and a wide range of courses in literature, culture, and area studies. You will be part of a close-knit and dynamic community with numerous co-curricular ...

Major in Russian, a language the U.S. State Department deems "critical," and gain a decisive edge for career success in law, journalism, international affairs and public and government services.