Russian 4302: Contemporary Russian Literature Syllabus Calendar Information on your term paper Historical and Cultural Background The Age of Stalin Socialist Realism The Great Patriotic War (WWII) The Thaw and Stagnation Literature and Culture in the Sixties and Seventies The Eighties and the Nineties Information on authors See calendar for more links with info on authors.  Solzhenitsyn Siniavskii (Terts) Erofeev Pelevin Materials for Moscow to the End of the Line Viktor Pelevin's "Hermit and Sixfinger"