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2 days ago · Fyodor[ a ] Mikhailovich Dostoevsky[ b ] (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881 [ 3 ][ c ]), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, [ 4 ] as many of his works are considered ...
3 days ago · But after 1881, Alexander III passed a series of 'counter-reforms' whose impact was to make it even harder for socialists and liberal reformers to work for their ideals within the law. A statute of August 1881 allowed the tsar's ministers to declare martial law, imprison people without trial, prohibit public gatherings, dismiss local officials, and send suspected revolutionaries into exile in ...
3 days ago · Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[ a ][ b ] (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) [ 6 ][ 7 ] was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has ...
3 days ago · Abstract In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, southern Italy experienced a period of relative political stability and economic prosperity under the Normans as well as the Hohenstaufen dynasty that succeeded them. These cultural conditions fostered a cultural resurgence, which included the composition of Greek poetry. Poets in Sicily wrote from within a multicultural context, including the ...
3 days ago · The settlement of Poliochni, located on the east coast of Lemnos Island (northeast Aegean), stands out as one of the largest early urban centres in the Early Bronze Age Aegean. It is often referred to as the “oldest city in Europe” due to its remarkable urban planning and richness of material culture. Excavations at Poliochni have brought to light important evidence that testify to its ...
3 days ago · Visual representation of the Logarithmic timeline in the scale of the universe. This timeline shows the whole history of the universe, the Earth, and mankind in one table. . Each row is defined in years ago, that is, years before the present date, with the earliest times at the top of the ch
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5 days ago · RUSS 340 Russia's Big Books (5, max. 15) A&H Studies one big/epic novel by the titans of Russian literature per quarter. Includes such novels as Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Goncharov's Oblomov, Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and Nabokov's Ada. All readings are in English.
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