1. Historical event. Event and fact of history. Temporality, reality, narrativity. Macro- and microhistory. Myths and chronicles.

2. History vs. Literature. History as a "true" event. Literature as the basis of the public sphere. Writer as the author of historical events.

3. War and natural disasters. History of literature during a state of emergency. Trauma of history. Anti-Semitism. History of the Siege of Leningrad.

4. Space of history. City as a historical event. History and everyday life. Reconstruction and restoration of history. Colonial history of Russia.

5. History of desire. Substituted events of history. Conspiracy theorists. Women's writing and "male" history. Intersectional feminist history.

6. Fin de siècle in Russian history. The decline of the history of the Russian state. "The Decline of Europe" and Russia. The Decadents' Going to the People.

7. Revolutionary Shifts of Eras. The Masses. The Construction of the Soviet Man. The History of Factories and Plants. World Literature.

8. The Soft Messianic Power of History. Benjamin and Adorno in the Soviet 1920s-1930s.

9. Time Forward! Socialist Realist Utopia. Stalin's Style. Stalin's Gesamkunstwerk. "The Culture Two". Literature of Fact.

10. The Cultural Gap. Few Pictures times in cinema production. Pure War Lyrics.

11. Stagnation. Eternity. Everyday revision of communist ideology.

12. Soviet archive. New historicism. Antiquarian literature of samizdat.

13. Straightening the history of literature. Chertkov and the Brief Literary Encyclopedia. Methods of representing the porous type of literature (official literature/samizdat, etc.).

14. Perestroika. New culture. Young culture.

15. The dashing 90s. "A collection of sand and water." Nostalgia and Melancholy in modern Russian history.

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