Russian Language

Paper-I

(Answers must be written in Russian except in the case of question regarding translation from Russian to English.)

Section-A

Language and Culture

i. Modern Russian Language: Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Lexicology, Lexicography and Semantics, linguistics

ii. Translation from Russian into English and vice-versa.

Section-B

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.

Paper-II

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

1. A.S. Pushkin, Evgeny Onegin

2. M.U. Lermontov, Hero of our times

3. N.V. Gogol, Revizor

4. I.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. Cloud in plants, ii. Good

11. M. Sholokhov ,Fate of a man

12. B. Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

13. Solzhenitsyn, One day in the life of Ivan Danisovich

14. V. Rasputin, Zhivi i Pomni

15. Chingiz Aitmatov, Bely Porokhod

16. V. Shukshin, Chudik