Civil Service Mains Optional RUSSIAN

RUSSIAN

PAPER-I

Answers must be written in Russian
except in the case of question regard-ing translation from Russian to English.
(Language and Culture)

Section-A

i. Modern Russian Language :
Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax,
Lexicology, Lexicography and Seman-tics, linguistics

ii. Translation from Russian into English
and vice-versa.

Section-B
i. Socio-political and economical devel-opment of the Russian Federation :
Patriotic war of 1812, October Revolu-tion, Perestroika and Glasnost, disinte-gration of USSR. Regional & Cultura


variations of the Russian Federation.
ii. Essay on general topics.

PAPER-II

(Answers must be written in Russian )
(Literature)
Section-A
Literary History and Literary Criticism
Literary movements, Sentimentalism, Ro-manticism, Naturalism, Realism, Critical
Realism, Socialism, Acmeism, Symbolism,
Futurism; Origin and development of liter-ary genres : Folk literature, Lyrics and po-ems-A.S. Pushkin, M.U. Lermontov,
Alexander Blok, Esenin, V. Mayakovky,
Anna Akhmatova. Epic-L.N. Tolstoy, M.
Sholokhov, Short story, novelet, novels-Pushkin, Lermontov, N.V. Gogol, S.
Shchedrin, I. Goncharov, I. Turgenev, F.M.
Dostoevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, A.P. Chekhov,
M. Gorky, M. Sholokhov, I. Bunin, E.
Zamyatin, Boris Pasternak, A.
Solzhenitsyn, M. Bulgakov, Chingiz
Aitmatov, V. Rasputin, V. Shukshin, Criti-cism-Belinsky, Dobrolyubov,
Chernyshevsky, Pisarev, Drama-Chekhov,
Gogol. Influence of socio-political move-ments on literature.

Section-B
This part will require first hand reading of
the texts prescribed and will be designed
to test the candidates’ critical ability.

1. A.S. Pushkin Evgeny Onegin

2. M.U. Lermontov Hero of our times

3. N.V. Gogol Revizor

4. I.S. Turgenev Fathers and sons

5. F.M. Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment

6. L.N. Tolstoy i. War and Peace

ii. Resurrection

7. A.P. Chekhov i. Toska

ii. Smert Chinovnika

iii. Chameleon

8. A.M. Gorky Mother

9. A. Blok The twelve

10. B.B. i. Cloud in plants
Mayakovsky ii. Good

11. M. Sholokhov Fate of a man

12. B. Pasternak Doctor Zhivago

13. Solzhenitsyn One day in the life of
Ivan Danisovich

14. V. Rasputin Zhivi i Pomni

15. Chingiz Aitmatov Bely Porokhod

16. V. Shukshin Chudik