RUSSIA: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SURVEY

HISTORY 417

Origins and evolution of the Russian people and state; political, economic, and social history; foreign relations as they affect domestic policy; from the ninth century to 1800.

SLAVIC 243

Post-Soviet Russia has been shaped by the tension between growing state violence and the slowly emerging public sphere of protest and activism. Crossing boundaries between literary, political, cultural, and art studies, draw on investigative journalism as well as contemporary Russian film, fiction, and art in order to explore the peculiar, yet not unprecedented cult of violence that underlies the Russian political climate and the alternatives suggested by activist opposition.

SLAVIC 433

Focuses on those topics in Russian cultural history that are most often discussed by Russians and serve as the basis for contemporary political and media discourse.

POLISCI 334

Theory and practice of Russian States, emphasis on politics, economic and institutional developments since 1991. Not open to students with credit for POLI SCI 633 prior to fall 2017

GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SLAVIC 254

Comprehensive interdisciplinary survey of East European culture, society, politics, and literature from its beginnings to the present day.