How the Silver Age Shapes Revolutionary Russian
The creative energy in Russia in the years leading up to the Revolutionary era of the early 20th Century is unparalleled. We will be looking at the way that art and that corresponding energy both reflects life and influences life.
Read the J. Thompson Chapter Reform, Reaction, Modernization (pdf below) to help provide you with a general background to life in Russia during this time period. The second more focused reading is from MacKenzie and Curran's A History of Russia...