pt. 1. Lecture 1. Origins of Russian literature
Lecture 2. The Church and the folk in Old Kiev
Lecture 3. Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799-1837
Lecture 4. Exile, rustic seclusion, and Onegin
Lecture 5. December's uprising and two poets meet
Lecture 6. A poet contrasts talent versus mediocrity
Lecture 7. St. Petersburg glorified and death embraced
Lecture 8. Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', 1809-1852
Lecture 9. Russian grotesque, overcoats to dead souls
Lecture 10. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821-1881
Lecture 11. Near mortality, prison, and an underground
Lecture 12. Second wife and a great crime novel begins.
pt. 2. Lecture 13. Inside the troubled mind of a criminal
Lecture 14. The generation of the Karamazovs
Lecture 15. The novelistic presence of Christ and Satan
Lecture 16. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910
Lecture 17. Tale of two cities and a country home
Lecture 18. Family life meets military life
Lecture 19. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord
Lecture 20. Family life makes a comeback
Lecture 21. Tolstoy the preacher
Lecture 22. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818-1883
Lecture 23. The stresses between two generations
Lecture 24. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860-1904.
pt. 3. Lecture 25. M. Gorky (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 1868-1936
Lecture 26. Literature and revolution
Lecture 27. The Tribune : Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893-1930
Lecture 28. The revolution makes a U-turn
Lecture 29. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905-1984
Lecture 30. Revolutions and civil war
Lecture 31. Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895-1958
Lecture 32. Among the godless : religion and family life
Lecture 33. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960
Lecture 34. The poet in and beyond society
Lecture 35. Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, born 1918
Lecture 36. The many colors of Russian literature.
