Changes in Russia Captured in the Works of Anton Chekhov Essay

Although Russia is said to have advanced after the majority of the countries (Discussion, 04/12/2017), the impact of the modern world slowly crept up to the characters. When the economy changed, Lyubov and her family’s estate felt the consequences. The selling of the cherry orchard set the scene for the survival of the fittest. The survivors of this are, but not completely limited to, Lopakhin and Anya. Lopakhin is a key character when discussing the survival of the fittest because he adapts from serfdom to wealthy businessman. This economic time period allowed for the rise of the middle class in Russia, putting Lopakhin in his current position. Lopakhin’s memories from being poor, like when Lyubov called him a “little peasant” (The Cherry Orchard, Act I. 3), drove him to adapt and thrive from other’s economic problems. While selling the cherry orchard, he is the only character willing to forget the past and move towards money. His motivation was clearly seen by his companions; this is evident when Trofimov states, “...You are necessary, like the beast of prey who devours everything that gets in his way…” (The Cherry Orchard, Act II. 29). By comparing Lopakhin to a beast, it shows that in the fight of survival of the fittest, Lopakhin is ready to thrive.

Anton Chekhov’s short story, “At Home,” provides a representation on how societies view morality when faced with the action of discipline. This view is imperative to the story because Chekhov wants the reader to recognize the futile ways societies determine what is morally correct or incorrect, by implementing consequences without considering why an action must be punished. Evgeni Bykovski, an attorney, is faced with this exact problem as he determines how to properly teach and discipline his son, Seriozha, who has been caught stealing, smoking, and lying. Nevertheless, Evgeni finds himself at his most difficult trial because as he ponders how to punish his son, he encounters his own set of crossroads on how societies discipline

Aleksander Nikitenko is notable for an extraordinarily detailed dairy kept from a very early age that provides an intimate view of Russian culture during the early 1800s. Aleksander’s written account, Up from Serfdom, offers a first-hand account of Russian history, making a rather insightful contribution to slave literature. This book is among one of the very few autobiographies ever written by a pre-existing serf. Despite being a bright child, Nikitenko was nevertheless one of the three hundred thousand serfs that were the personal property of the Sheremetiv family in Voronezh Province, whom possessed legal authority to dispose of the serfs as they wished. Nonetheless, through a remarkable turn of events, Aleksander, unlike other serfs

The stories of Anton Chekhov mark a focal moment in European fiction. This is the point where 19th realist caucus of the short stories started their transformation into modern form. As such, his work straddles two traditions. The first is that of the anti-romantic realism which has a sharp observation of external social detail. It has human behavior conveyed within tight plot. The second is the modern psychological realism in which the action in typically internal and expressed in associative narrative that is built on epiphanic moments. In consideration of the two sides, Chekhov developed powerful personal styles that presage modernism without losing traditional frills of the form. This essay will discuss the Chekhov's portrayal of women.

From 1785 to present day Chechnya and Russia have had conflicts. Starting in 1785, Russia only cared for the Caucasus region for its use as a communication track to Georgia. Russian allies Cossacks started settling in the Caucasus Mountains and that region began expanding. After they signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, they collected Georgia as a territory. They manufactured a road and military forts for security of the passageway. The Russians began to feel endangered because Sheikh Mansur started preaching an uncommon style of Islam. They tried to capture Mansur but failed. Since they failed they ended up burning the village where he lived.

The article opens with an overview of the pre-revolution peasant class and continues through the experiences of these women to beyond the Russian Civil War from the years 1918-1921. Clements

Anton Chekhov, born in Taganrog, Russia on January 17, 1860, was considered the father of the modern short story and modern play. In 1875, his father lost his business and was forced to leave to find work in Moscow in order to pay off his debt. Anton and his three younger siblings were left with their mother, Yevgeniya, after a while they lost their home and decided to move to Moscow to be with Chekhov’s father. Chekhov, who was left behind in Taganrog to finish his schooling, helped his family financially by tutoring children in Taganrog. He found work in a clothing warehouse until he finished his final exams. After school, he joined his family in Moscow, where he continued his studies in the medical field at the University of Moscow. Chekhov used his own experiences of living in Moscow in his short story “The Lady With the Dog”.

For this assignment, you will, first, need to find one passage from the short story you’ve selected that can speak to the focus and concerns of one specific literary theory of your choice (e.g. Marxism). Your job is to fuel discussion, make connections, and analyze.

The Russian Revolution is a widely studied and seemingly well understood time in modern, European history, boasting a vast wealth of texts and information from those of the likes of Robert Service, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Allan Bullock, Robert Conquest and Jonathan Reed, to name a few, but none is so widely sourced and so heavily relied upon than that of the account of Leon Trotsky, his book “History of the Russian Revolution” a somewhat firsthand account of the events leading up to the formation of the Soviet Union. There is no doubt that Trotsky’s book, among others, has played a pivotal role in shaping our understanding of the events of The Revolution; but have his personal predilections altered how he portrayed such paramount

To understand Dancing in Odessa, one must understand pain, loss, and love, often at the same time. Kaminsky embodies a variety of emotions throughout his book that has sent me through the five stages of grief as well as an outpour of love and happiness. To understand Kaminsky, one must understand the history and struggle of the Ukrainian population as a whole, and only then will the reader achieve understanding of his poetry collection Dancing in Odessa, which pulls from Kaminsky’s own personal experiences as well as those around him.

Russia had been an autocratic government for 300 years under the Romanov Dynasty before the revolution of 1917. When problems started in the early 1900’s most people were serfs that had been freed about 20 years before. In 1914 during World War One, Czar Nicholas II decided to stay in war with Germany despite what the rest of his country thought. Nicholas posed a distraction from the countries problems. His plan was to keep his soldiers minds off of the horrible living conditions of Russia by staying in war with Germany and starting a war with Japan in hope that he would lead his country to a victory; both wars were lost, giving Russian citizens more to be upset about. Russia’s Army was extremely weak, made mainly of peasants, and the cost

As Raskolinikov is walking thought the streets of St. Petersburg and encounters a drunk, young woman, Dostoevsky takes advantage of this situation to add a layer of complexity to Raskolinikov’s character. The sudden change in Raskolinikov’s mentality of how to care for the young woman makes it possible for Dostoevsky to use tone, point of view, and diction to explain how Raskolinikov is conflicted on his views about helping others.

In 19th century Russian literature there was often a gender inequality depicted between the male and female characters. Women were expected to get married, start a family, and obey their husbands. Women often made sacrifices and married men they weren’t fond of in order to support their families. Anton Chekhov’s writing questions these gender relationships. The female characters have a strong presence within Chekhov’s works, and they transcend typical gender roles.

    Anton Chekhov uses The Cherry Orchard, to openly present the decline of an aristocratic Russian family as a microcosm of the rapid decline of the old Russia at the end of the nineteenth century--but also provides an ominous foreshadowing of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in the disparate ideals of his characters, Trofimov and Lopakhin, however unintentionally. The Gayev family and their plight is intended as a symbolic microcosm of the fall of the aristocracy in society at large. Though the merchant Lopakhin is presented as the character who holds values of the new, post-aristocratic age, the student Trofimov espouses the political sentiments that will ultimately replace both the

  Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard projects the cultural conflict of the turn of the twentieth century of Russia. With a historical allusion, Chekhov exhibited the changing Russia with "slice of life" in his play. The Cherry Orchard is not only a depiction of Russian life but also an understatement of changing traditional value. Cultural conflict itself is an abstraction. To explain it, it is the traditional culture that is unable to resist the invading one. In the play, each character has his or her own personality, which symbolizes their individual social levels of Russian society. But these characters distinguish themselves into two sides, which are conservators and investors;