IAS Mains-2023 Russian Syllabus
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Paper-I
The answers must be written in Russian except in the case of question regarding translation from Russian to English (Language and Culture) .
Section-A
- Modern Russian Language: Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Lexicology, Lexicography and Semantics, linguistics
- Translation from Russian into English and vice-versa.
Section-B
- 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.
- Essay on general topics.
Paper-II
The answers must be written in Russian Literature
Section-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, Short story, novelet, novels-Pushkin, Lermontov, N V Gogol, S. Shchedrin, I. Goncharov, I. Turgenev, F M Dostoevsky, L N Tolstoy, A P Chekhov, M. Gorky, M. Sholokhov, I. Bunin, E. Zamyatin, 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.
Section-B
This part will require first hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the candidates ′ critical ability.
- A S Pushkin Evgeny Onegin
- M U Lermontov Hero of our times
- N V Gogol Revizor
- I. S. Turgenev Fathers and sons
- F M Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
- L N Tolstoy
- War and Peace
- Resurrection
- A P Chekhov
- Toska
- Smert Chinovnika
- Chameleon
- A. M. Gorky Mother
- A. Blok The twelve
- B. B.
- Cloud in plants Mayakovsky
- Good
- M. Sholokhov Fate of a man
- B. Pasternak Doctor Zhivago
- Solzhenitsyn One day in the life of Ivan Danisovich
- V. Rasputin Zhivi i Pomni
- Chingiz Aitmatov Bely Porokhod
- V. Shukshin Chudik