The final will consist of some short answer questions based
on class lectures and discussions, identification of text
excerpts (You must provide author and title for each), and two
essays.
The PowerPoint presentations used in class are available on
the course Blackboard site.
Roughly 80 percent of the final will be from the materials
covered after the midterm.
Click
here for essay questions.
Please be familiar with the following figures, concepts, or
events:
Stagnation
Russian Poetry from 1960-1990
Leonid Brezhnev
Kyrgyzstan
Voinovich, the hotel Metropol', and the
KGB
The almanac Metropol'
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Perestroika and Glasnost
Chernukha
Yeltsin in 1991
Yeltsin after 1991
Financial crisis in 1998
Vladimir Putin
Boris Akunin
Alexandra Marinina
Vladimir Sorokin, Light Blue Lard, and
"pornography"
Remember that there will be some
materials from the first
half of the semester, as well.
