Themes
Soviet Reality
Stalinist Terror,
the Secret Police,
the Prison Camp System
Housing Shortage,
Heart of a Dog,
Apartment Exchanges
Foreigners,
Foreign currency,
Foreign currency stores
Atheism,
Bezbozhnik
Documents
Religion
Christological controversies (Historical/Mythological)
Bible
An
Overview of Historical Documents
from the Catholic Encyclopedia
Apocrypha:
Gospel of Nicodemus
Renan's Life of Jesus
Dualism/
Manichaeism
Literature
Goethe's Faust
(and
Gounod's
)
Pushkin
Music
Verdi's Aida
Gounod's Faust
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Glorious Baikal
Hallelujah!
Timeline of the novel
Created by
Kevin Moss
at
Middlebury College
Please address any comments & corrections to
moss@middlebury.edu
!