Adapted from a banquet address delivered to the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages on December 29, 1970, in New York, New York. (DS)

Topics, materials, and assignments are provided for 49 literature lessons for tenth grade, plus review notes. Subject matter includes Gorky, Mayakovsky, Soviet literature in the 1920s, the 1930s, Tolstoi, the Great Patriotic War, Sholokhov, and modern foreign literature. (ND)

The author sees a need for a new approach to the study of literature which will blend teachers' insights into literary analysis with meaningful primary source reading by students. Creative teaching methods should integrate the literary-historical approach with contemporary reading and assessment of a work. (Author/AV)

Some papers from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) symposium, "Significant Russian/Soviet Cultural and Pedagogical Developments of the 1980s: Educating American Students for the Year 2000," are presented. After an explanation of the system of transliteration used in the works, the following papers and authors are included:…

Questions related to the teaching of Russian and Soviet literature in the second language programs in India are explored, particularly, the amount of time to be devoted to the study of literature, an appropriate method, and the most appropriate time to introduce it. Russian has been taught in India for only 30 years and only recently have…

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