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Slavic 155 gives students a chance to read almost all the major works of Dostoievski and Tolstoy. Professor Renato Poggioli plays the Grand Inquistor in Emerson...
...descends to jargon. A. G. Haas, who reviews 'It Happened at the Inn," seems unable to control a breakaway imagination. In discussing an innocuous, modest film he manages not only to give a short history of French and Russian motion pictures but to drag in such assorted people as Dostoievski, Gogol, Daphne du Maurier, and T. S. Eliot...
...Sachs first met his fellow Viennese in 1904. Sachs was then a law-school graduate bored with the law, fascinated by literature and, especially, by the psychological insights of Dostoievski. "I hoped to tread in broad daylight the obscure and labyrinthine paths of passion which he had traced." At this point, Sachs came upon Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. "I said to myself that these stupendous revelations needed and merited the most complete scrutiny; even if it should in the end turn out that every theory advanced in its pages were wrong, I would not regret the loss...
Thousands of people, who disliked their propaganda, recognized in these films a fresh burst of the fierce, Russian creative energy, which, 50 years before, produced Dostoievski, Turgenev, Tolstoi in literature. Ten years later people still went to see them again and again, just as they reread the great Russian novels...
...general cultural aims of the Soviet Union." These aims are fairly well known. Generally, they are: "... to raise the cultural level of the entire population and to create the foundations of a Communist culture, as opposed to Capitalist culture." U. S. readers who think vaguely of Tolstoi and Dostoievski as timelessly typical of Russian literature will be disillusioned by this book. When Tolstoi died in 1910. Lenin wrote that "prerevolutionary Russia, with its lack of energy and strength, expressed in the philosophy of a genuine artist, has receded into the past." Roughly, Dostoievski and Tolstoi are as representative of contemporary...