Review Materials for the Midterm

Make sure you are familiar with the following people, events, and concepts:

Socialist Realism
The Thaw
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Novyi Mir
Virgin Lands Project
Joseph Brodsky
Samizdat
Tamizdat
The GULAG
The Trial of Sinyavsky and Daniel
Viktor Shklovskii
Mikhail Bakhtin
Carnivalization
20th Party Congress
Khrushchev's Secret Speech
Nobel Prize Winning Russian Authors
Exile (which authors that we read were expelled from the country).