(Paper) Civil Services Exam Paper Pattern (Russian)

UPSC : Civil Services Exam Paper Pattern (Russian)

NOTE: Answers must be written in Russian except in the case of question regarding translation from Russian to English.

Paper I:

Language and Culture

Section A

• Modern Russian Language: Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Lexicology, Lexicography and Semantics, linguistics
• Translation from Russian into English and vice-versa

Section B

• Socio-political and economical development of the Russian Federation : Patriotic war of 1812, October Revolution, Perestroika and Glasnost, disintegration of USSR . Regional & Cultural variations of the Russian Federation

Essay on general topics

Paper II

Section A

Literary History and Literary Criticism

• Literary movements, Sentimentalism, Romanticism, Naturalism, Realism, Critical Realism, Socialism, Acmeism, Symbolism, Futurism
• Origin and development of literary genres: Folk literature, Lyrics and poems-A.S. Pushkin, M.U. Lermontov, Alexander Blok, Esenin, V. Mayakovky, Anna Akhmatova. Epic-L.N. Tolstoy, M. Sholokhov, Short story, novelet, novels-Pushkin, Lermontov, N.V. Gogol, S. Shchedrin, I. Goncharov, I. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, A.P. Chekhov, M. Gorky, M. Sholokhov, I. Bunin, E. Zamyatin, Boris Pasternak, A. Solzhenitsyn, M. Bulgakov, Chingiz Aitmatov, V. Rasputin, V. Shukshin, Criticism-Belinsky, Dobrolyubov, Chernyshevsky, Pisarev, Drama-Chekhov, Gogol
• Influence of socio-political movements on literature.

Section-B

This part will require first hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the candidates’ critical ability.

• A.S. Pushkin: Evgeny Onegin
• M.U. Lermontov: Hero of our times
• N.V. Gogol: Revizor
• I.S. Turgenev: Fathers and sons
• F.M. Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
• L.N. Tolstoy: War and Peace, Resurrection
• A.P. Chekhov: Toska
• Smert Chinovnika: Chameleon
• A.M. Gorky: Mother
• A. Blok: The twelve
• B.B Mayakovsky: Cloud in plants, Good
• M. Sholokhov: Fate of a man
• B. Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
• Solzhenitsyn: One day in the life of Ivan Danisovich
• V. Rasputin: Zhivi i Pomni
• Chingiz Aitmatov: Bely Porokhod
• V. Shukshin: Chudik