User:Jonterc/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title:
 * Leo Tolstoy
 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article explores the life and career of celebrated Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, who's known largely for his books "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina." Throughout his novels and other writings, he expressed many of his political beliefs, which condemned private land ownership and influenced Christian anarchist thought. It's important to note, however, that Tolstoy was NOT a socialist.
 * The citations here are reliable, neutral and informative. It doesn't necessarily cover one of Wikipedia's equity gaps, but it's nonetheless a valuable article to look at how socialist thought was beginning to take shape in nineteenth century Russia. I'd like my contribution to provide information about Tolstoy's legacy in regards to the socialist movement.
 * Sources:
 * https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/sep/11.htm
 * https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol03/no01/lenin.htm
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/24583606?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/126739?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/books/04tolstoy.html
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/126739?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/books/04tolstoy.html

Option 2

 * Article title:
 * War and Peace
 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article looks at Tolstoy's most distinguished -- and notably longest -- novel, War and Peace. It examines its plot and reception, but I'd like my contribution to look specifically at the Epilogue, in which Tolstoy writes about the beginnings of the Decembrist uprising, a failed revolt to overthrow Imperial Russia's autocracy. This historical depiction, in my view, can give insight into how War and Peace was viewed in Soviet Russia.
 * Sources:
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20121013160227/http://www.rodgaz.ru/index.php?action=Articles&dirid=25&tek=27096&issue=429
 * https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/sep/11.htm
 * https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol03/no01/lenin.htm
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/24583606?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/126739?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/24583606?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/126739?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Option 3

 * Article title:
 * Decembrist Revolt
 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article looks at one of the first revolutions in Russia -- the Decembrist Revolt -- staged in the late 1820's. I'd like my contribution to look at this event's impact on revolutionary thought in Russia, leading up to the Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union.
 * Sources
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1k85dnw.9?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * http://www.ijors.net/issue6_2_2017/articles/cicek.html
 * https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/ayrapetova-dec.asp
 * http://www.u.arizona.edu/~davido/russianrevolutiondates.htm
 * https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/ayrapetova-dec.asp
 * http://www.u.arizona.edu/~davido/russianrevolutiondates.htm

Option 4

 * Article title: Russian literature
 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article provides an overview of Russian literature, its major figures, its central themes, and its lasting impact. There are mentions of socialist realism -- a style of idealized realistic art that formed in the Soviet Union -- but I'd like to dive a little deeper to look at how this style art was born from its predecessors in the 19th century.
 * Sources:
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/3004133?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/430715?origin=crossref&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1934-2/socialist-realism/
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/430715?origin=crossref&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1934-2/socialist-realism/

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