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Session 1: Introduction (history and culture)
Recommended reading
- Billington, James. 1970. The icon and the axe: An interpretative history of
Russian culture. NY: Random House. 2–15.
- Čiževskij, Dmitrij. 1962. History of Russian literature from the eleventh
century to the end of the baroque. ’s-Gravenhage: Mouton & Co.
1–30.
- MacKenzie, David and Michael W. Curran. 1993. A history of Russia, the
Soviet Union, and beyond. 5th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Chapters
1–4.
- Martin, Janet. Medieval Russia, 980–1584. Second edition. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Mirsky, D. S. Old Russian literature: its place in the history of civilisation.
Slavonic review, Vol. 3, No. 7 (Jun., 1924), pp. 74–91. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4201821