Readings from Russian Formalism:

(in required book: Lemon & Reis, ed., Russian Formalist Criticism)  

• Victor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique" (1917)
• Boris Eichenbaum, "The Theory of the 'Formal Method'" (1926) 
• Boris Tomashevsky, from "Thematics" (1925): read only pp. 66-87, 92-95 

• Resources for Study of Russian Formalism (see below)

• Turn of the Century Russian Literary Milieu:
• Analogous to Belle Lettres in West:
• Russian Symbolists (Vladimir Solovev, Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, etc.)
• Alexander Potebnya (psychologization of Symbolism: poetry is thinking in images)
• Analogous to Historical Criticism:
• Academic scholarship: sociological and biographical on the model of Taine and German Kultur- and Geistesgeschicte
• Journalistic criticism
• Avant-garde or New Movements:
• Futurism (e.g., Vladimir Mayakovsky)
• Linguistics 

• Emergence: 1915-20
• 1915: Moscow Linguistic Circle (Roman Jakobson, Boris Tomashevsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky)
• 1916: Petersburg Society for the Study of Poetic Language, or OPOJAZ (linguists: Leo Jakubinsky; literary theorists: Victor Shlovsky, Boris Eichenbaum)
• Sborniki journal (Studies in the Theory of Poetic Language)
• 1920: "Division of Literary History" at the Petrograd State Institute of Art History (Eichenbaum, Shlovsky, Jurij Tynjanov, Tomashevski)

• Triumph and Diversification: 1921-25

• Attack and Defeat: 1925-30  (see Victor Erlich, Russian Formalism: History–Doctrine, chapters 6-7)
• 1924-25: opening of the Marxist offensive on formalism
• Leon Trotsky's Literature and the Revolution (with a chapter on "The Formalist School") (1924)
• Article by Anatoly Lunacharsky, first Soviet Commissar of Education in the Press and Revolution journal (1924)
• 1926-28: period of accommodation to Marxism
• Shklovsky, The Third Factory (1926); Materials and Style in Tolstoy's War and Peace (1928)
• Eichenbaum: "Literature and Literary Mores" (1927)
• 1928-32: First Five-Year Plan
• RAPP, Russian Assoc. of Proletarian Writers, given the task of regulating literary theory
• 1930 and following
• Shklovsky, "A Monument to a Scientific Error" (1930)

• New Developments
• The "Prague School": Prague Linguistic Circle (1926)
• "Neo-Structuralists" (e.g., Jurij Lotman, Boris Uspenskij)

• Some Russian Formalist writings in English (other than in the Lemon & Reis volume)
• Ladislav Matejka and Krystyna Pomorska, ed., Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 1971)

• About Russian Formalism
• Victor Erlich, Russian Formalism: History--Doctrine, 3d ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981)
• Peter Steiner, Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984)
• Ewa M. Thompson, Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New Criticism: A Comparative Study (The Hague: Mouton, 1971)
• Tony Bennett, Formalism and Marxism, New Accents (London: Methuen, 1979)

• Some Prague School essays in English
  
• Ladislav Matejka and Irwin R. Titunik, ed., Semiotics of Art: Prague School Contributions (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1976)
• Peter Steiner, The Prague School: Selected Writings, 1929-1946 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982)

• On the Prague School
  
• F. W. Galan, Historic Structures: The Prague School Project, 1928-1946 (Austin University of Texas Press, 1985)

• Some "Neo-Structuralist" works in English
• Daniel P. Lucid, ed. and trans., Soviet Semiotics: An Anthology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977)
• Alexander D. Nakhimovsky and Alice Stone Nakhimovsky, The Semiotics of Russian Cultural History: Essays by Iurii M. Lotman, Lidiia Ia. Ginsburg, Boris A. Uspenskii (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985)