Spring 2027

Escaping Utopia: Cultures After Communism

Examines how culture mediated the collapse of communist regimes and shapes postcommunist identity through Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, and South Slavic literature and cinema.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.60 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • identify and discuss main events, figures, themes, concepts, aesthetic devices, ideas, and social changes that have shaped the culture of the region since the collapse of communist regimes

  • define “postcommunism/post-socialism” as a cultural phenomenon in the context of East-Central Europe

  • apply basic methods of literary, cinematic, and cultural analysis to interpret a wide range of cultural texts produced in East-Central European countries in the years following the collapse of communism

  • develop, compare, and effectively express ideas about cultural texts and their underlying semantic structures

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.60 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Historiography, identity, and visions of the future in affected nations
  • Condition of postcommunism
  • Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, and South Slavic literature in translation and cinema

Skills

  • Apply basic methods of literary, cinematic, and cultural analysis to interpret cultural texts.
  • Develop, compare, and effectively express ideas about cultural texts and their underlying semantic structures.

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