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An excerpt of one descriptive passage from \"Lake Baikal Before My Eyes: An Essay\" by Valentin Rasputin is presented. In this essay, Rasputin expresses his views on the essence of Lake Baikal. He also points out the psychic import of this huge freshwater body to the spirit of the Russian people.

This is the first work to set one of the great bloodless revolutions of the twentieth century in its proper historical context. John Dunlop pays particular attention to Yeltsin's role in opposing the covert resurgence of Communist interests in post-coup Russia, and faces the possibility that new institutions may not survive long enough to sink roots in a traditionally undemocratic culture.

Siberia is a space that is more ideologic than it is geographic; it lacks defined physical boundaries and has no precise date of founding. Throughout its contemporary history as a Russian territory, the Siberia of public imagination has been dictated primarily by the views and agendas of external actors, and its culture and literature - despite having multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, and multi-religious roots - have been subsumed by the greater Russian tradition to which they are uneasily tied. Using an historical framework, this thesis establishes that there is, in fact, a canon of Siberian literature that stands apart from the Russian canon and that incorporates not only Russian texts but also other European and local indigenous ones. Furthermore, I contend that this canon has both been shaped by and continues to shape a pan-Siberian identity that unifies the border-less, ideologic space in a way that physical boundaries cannot.

Flood is one of the most archetypal images in literature, symbolizing god's wrath, punishment for sin and a cleansing transformation. Dams inspire rich symbolism as acts of tremendous power, they are metaphors for national progress, symbols of victory over nature and embodiments of a dream cast in stone. Here, Nikitina discusses the three distinct cultural flavor of novels that reflects differences in geography, social system, spirituality, literary tradition and shared concerns with the realizations about dams against the varied cultural backdrop.

The novel is about an island village on the Angara River that is about to be subsumed in the 1960s by construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric plant, and the elderly residents who try to resist resettlement and cannot adapt to city life.

[Valentin Rasputin] had pushed for members of the Pussy Riot group to be jailed for their anti-[Vladimir Putin] protest inside the cathedral in 2012. He also had publicly expressed support for Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula last year.

Rich briefly discusses the short story,\"In a Siberian Town\" and its author Valentin Rasputin. Although Rasputin turned to writing gradually, he soon became the hope and pride of Soviet literature.

Moscow -- Valentin Rasputin lives deep in Russia, on the edge of Siberia, pressing a thousand years of conquering czars and toiling peasants close to his soul. \"Russia must rise from its knees and get back the respect of the international community,\" Mr. Rasputin said in an interview here in Moscow. Russia, he said, should accomplish this task alone, without handouts from the West. In his novel \"Farewell to Matyora\" and in a collection of essays and stories, \"Siberia on Fire,\" Mr. Rasputin was a voice of dissent in the Soviet days. While other writers were praising the giant dams and factories that tore through Siberia as the greatest progress, Mr. Rasputin was lamenting the ecological damage and cost to traditional ways of life.