(Syllabus) RUSSIAN - UPSC MAINS EXAM 2011

SYLLABI FOR THE EXAMINATION PART-B
MAIN EXAMINATION

RUSSIAN

PAPER-I

Answers must be written in Russian except in the case of question regarding translation from Russian to English. (Language and Culture): Section-A
i. Modern Russian Language : Lexicology, Lexicography and Semantics, linguistics
ii. Translation from Russian into English and vice-versa.

Section-B
i. 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.
ii. Essay on general topics.

PAPER-II

(Answers must be written in Russian ) (Literature) : 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 Alexander Blok, Esenin, V. Mayakovky, Anna Akhmatova. Epic-L.N. Tolstoy, M. Sholokhov, Short story, novelet Shchedrin, I. Goncharov, I. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, A.P. Chekhov, M. Gorky, M. Sholokhov, I . Bunin, E. Aitmatov, V. Rasputin, V. Shukshin, 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.
1. A.S. Pushkin Evgeny Onegin
2. M.U. Lermontov Hero of our times
3. N.V. Gogol Revizor
4. I.S. Turgenev Fathers and sons
5. F.M. Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
6. L.N. Tolstoy i. War and Peace ii. Resurrection
7. A.P. Chekhov i. Toska ii. Smert Chinovnika iii. Chameleon
8. A.M. Gorky Mother
9. A. Blok The twelve
10. B.B. i. Cloud in plants Mayakovsky ii. Good
11. M. Sholokhov Fate of a man
12. B. Pasternak Doctor Zhivago
13. Solzhenitsyn One day in the life of Ivan Danisovich
14. V. Rasputin Zhivi i Pomni
15. Chingiz Aitmatov Bely Porokhod
16. V. Shukshin Chudik