Answers must be written in Russian except in case of question regarding translation from Russian to English.
(Language and Culture)
Part A
i. Modern Russian Language: Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Lexicology, Lexicography and Semantics, linguistics,
ii. Translation form Russian into English and vice-versa.
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.
Answers must be written in Russian.
(Literature)
Part 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, Shortstory, novelet, novels -Pushkin, Lermontov, N.V. Gogol, S. Shchedrin, I. Goncharov, I. Turgenev, F.M.Dostoevsky, L. N.Tolstory, A.P. Chekhov, M. Gorky, M. Sholokhov, I. Bunin, E. Zamytan, 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.
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 - Evgenyo Onegin
2. M.U. Lermontov , - Hero of our times
3. N.V. Gogol - Revizor
4. l.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. Mayakovsky - i. Clouds in plants
ii. Good
11. M. Sholokhov - Fate of a Man
12. B. Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago
13. Solzhenistyn - One day in the life of Ivan Danisovich
14. V. Rasputin - Zhivi Pomni
15. Chingiz Aitmatov - Bely Porokhod
16. V. Shukshin , - Chudik.