​RUSSIAN

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RUSSIAN​ SYLLABUS

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​UNIT- I   PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY             
             Classification of the Vowels and the Consonants
              Rhythm and intonation
UNIT- II LEXICOLOGY AND PHRASEOLOGY 
              Types of lexical meanings
UNIT- III MORPHOLOGY AND WORD FORMATION 
             Parts of Speech and main methods of word formation.
UNIT- IV SYNTAX-SIMPLE SENTENCE 
                Complex and compound sentence
UNIT- V CULTURAL HISTORY             
​             Reforms of Peter I
             Peasants Revolts
              Decembrist Movement
             Abolition of Serfdom
              Patriotic War of 1812
              First Russian Revolution
             October Revolution
             Civil War
             Disintegration of USSR
UNIT-         VI      CHARACTERISTIC    FEATURES         OF    RUSSIAN FOLKLORE             
             Russian literature up to the end of the 18th century
             Slovo o polku Igorove, Khozhdenie za tri moray
UNIT-         VII    CHARACTERISTIC    FEATURES         OF    RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY1            
​             A. S. Pushkin   - Evgeny Onegin
             Poems: Ya vas lyubil, Ya pomnyu chudnoe mgnovenye, Zimnii vecher
            M.Lermontov : Geroi Nashevo vremeni
            Poems: Parus , Smert’ poeta
            N.V.Gogol  : Shinel, Myortvye dushi
            Turgenev  : Otsy I deti
            Literary critics
            Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, Pisarev
UNIT- VIII CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE SECOND HALF OF 19TH CENTURY AND BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY                 
​                Nekrasov and his poem Komu na Rusi zhit’ khorosho
                F.M.Dostoevsky  : Prestupleniye I nakazaniye, Bratya Karamazovy
                L.N.Tolstoy:  Anna Karenina, Voskresenye
                A.P.Chekhov: Features of short stories in general
                Smert’ chinovnika , Chelovek v futlyare, Vishnyovy sad - in detai
                Maxim Gorky: Salient features of short stories and Mat’ 
UNIT - IX SALIENT FEATURES OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE AFTER OCTOBER REVOLUTION 
                Alexander Blok , Symbolism, the poem : “Dvenadtsat’”
                 V. Mayakovsky: Futurism and the poem   “ Khorosho”
                 Esenin : Village poems in general
                 Dosvidaniya drug moi…, Rus Ukhodyashaya in detail
                  M.Sholokhov : Tikhii Don
                  Pasternak  : Doktor Zhivago
                  A.Solzhenitsyn : Odin den v zhizni Ivana Denisovicha
                 General survey of the works of the following writers:
                  V .Shukshin, V.Rasputin, M.Bulgakov, Astafyev
UNIT - X GENERAL TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN LITERATURE

RUSSIAN ANSWER KEYS

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1. ​Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II June 2012)
2. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III June 2012)
3. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II June 2013)
4. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III June 2013)
5. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II June 2014)
6. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III June 2014)
7. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II June 2015)
8. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III June 2015)
9. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II Dec 2012)
10. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III Dec 2012)
11. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II Dec 2013)
12. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III Dec 2013)
13. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II Dec 2014)
14. Russian Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III Dec 2014)