Russian literature

Russian literature, literary works mainly produced in the historic area of Russia, written in its earliest days in Church Slavonic and after the 17th cent. in the Russian language.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• World War II to the Present
• Soviet Literature, 1917–39
• An Age of Masterpieces: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
• Romanticism and Modern Style: The Early Nineteenth Century
• Western Influence: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Early Literature
• Bibliography

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