Anna Akhmatova

Literature written by a female hand has been rare, but tremendously influential on society’s readers and writers alike. One of the effects of their writing has been a greater insight to being a female in a male dominated world. The fact it has been so sparse throughout history gives the first clue. It is very hard for a woman to voice an opinion, let alone be heard by those around her. Those few female authors that have been published have given the world a precious gift and a deeper…

Andrei Zhdanov was born on the 26th of February, 1896 in Mariupol, in what is now southeastern Ukraine. His family was forced to travel throughout Russia in order to find work after his father died when Zhdanov was four years old. The family settled in the city of Tver, and Zhdanov began studying at a vocational school at the age of nine. Like many Russians he became interested in Bolshevik ideas while working in factories and began taking a role in political rallies in 1912 and by 1915 Zhdanov…

characteristic of melancholic approach to trauma. Instead, Rose emphasizes the need to begin inaugurated mourning in an attempt to mend the brokenness of social and political thought and reconciling it with actuality. Turning to a discussion of Anna Akhmatovas’ poem Requiem, which was a poem committed to memory I will observe inaugurated mourning in the public realm, which cannot occur in Athens, but in New…

The events that took place subsequent to Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953 transformed the Soviet Communism and way of life in many different ways. Essentially, the transformation of Soviet life after the Thaw can be said to have undergone three phases: introduction of reforms during Khrushchev’s era, the Brezhnev stagnation, and Gorbachev reforms that ultimately led to the Soviet Union dissolving in 1991. When Nikita Khrushchev rose to power, he made significant reforms including policies of peace…

Although socialist realist literature was a continuation of the traditional realism in that it also depicted the same subjects, it was a cessation of the latter since it significantly different from the latter in terms of its form and functions. While the nineteenth century Russian realism, best represented by the works of Anton Chekhov and Lev Tolstoy, depicts life as it is and criticizes it, socialist realism depicts life as what the Bolsheviks – this point is especially important since they…

I’m sure we’ve all heard of Billy Collins at some point and time; whether it was on NPR or an ad on the Internet, everyone probably has come across him at some point. Why I say this is because he’s become such a known poet, he has performed for Congress after 9/11, sold many copies of his published works, and been named “America’s first truly poet since Robert Frost” and to be named that, that mean’s he’s made it. There might be some confusion as to why Collins is so popular if someone hasn’t…