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Rus 326: Course Schedule (Subject to change)
Date
TOPIC
READING
Jan. 12
Introduction
Tolstoy Family History
Jan. 19
Childhood
Educational Background
Childhood-Boyhood-Youth
Jan. 24
University and aftermath
Childhood-Boyhood-Youth
Jan. 26
Army/Crimean War
1st Essay due on Childhood-Boyhood-Youth.
Childhood-Boyhood-Youth
Sevastopol Sketches

Jan. 31
First publications:
Childhood/Sevastopol

The Raid
The Wood-Felling
Feb. 2
St. Petersburg
Two Hussars
Feb. 7
Tolstoy and others
Family Happiness
The Cossacks in Great Short Works
Feb. 9
Retreat from literature
2nd Essay due on The Cossacks.
The Cossacks in Great Short Works
War and Peace
Feb. 14
Marriage and Early Family Life
Return to Literature
War and Peace
Feb. 16
Exam #1
War and Peace
Feb. 21
War and Peace

War and Peace
Feb. 23
War and Peace
3rd Essay on War and Peace due
Anna Karenina
Feb. 28
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
March 2
Retreat from literature
Pedagogical work
Anna Karenina
March 7
Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina
March 9
Anna Karenina
4th Essay on Anna Karenina due
Anna Karenina
March 21
Anna Karenina
God Sees the Truth But Waits Memoirs of a Madman
March 23
Crisis/Conversion
A Confession
March 28
Tolstoy as prophet: religious writings
What Men Live By,
How Much Land Does a Man Need, Strider
March 30
Exam #2
April 4
Post-conversion family life
The Death of Ivan Ilych, Kreutzer Sonata in Great Short Works
April 6
1890’s
5th Essay on The Death of Ivan Ilych due

Resurrection
April 11
1890’s
Resurrection
April 13
Later family life
6th Essay on Resurrection due
Resurrection
April 18
Later Fiction

The Devil 
Master and Man
April 20
Battles with State and Church
7th Essay due (on one of the works not previously assigned)
The Power of Darkness
What Is Art? (extract)
April 25
Revolution of 1905
Father Sergius
Alyosha the Pot

April 27
Final Years/Death
Legacy
Hadji Murad
"The Law of Violence and the Law of Love," in Edie; “The Meaning of the Russian Revolution,” in Raeff; “I Cannot Be Silent.”
May 2
FINAL EXAMINATION
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