Russian literature

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Introduction
Old Russian literature (10th–17th centuries)
- The Kievan period
- From the 14th to the 17th century
  - Moscow’s ascendancy
  - The Second South Slavic Influence
  - Possessors and Nonpossessors
  - Works reflecting Muscovite power
- The 17th century
Imperial literature
- The Petrine reforms
  - The Westernization of Russia
  - The response of writers and critics
- The 18th century
  - Catherine II the Great
  - Poetry
  - Drama and prose fiction
- The 19th century
  - The “Golden Age” of poetry
  - Aleksandr Pushkin
  - Lermontov and Griboyedov
  - Nikolay Gogol
  - Other poets and dramatists
  - The “intelligentsia”
  - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  - Leo Tolstoy
  - Ivan Turgenev
  - Other prose writers
  - Anton Chekhov
- The Silver Age
  - Symbolists
  - Acmeists and Futurists
  - Others
Post-Revolutionary literature
- Literature under Soviet rule
- From the 1920s to c. 1985
  - Experiments in the 1920s
  - The Stalin era
  - Thaws and freezes
Post-Soviet literature

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