CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN CULTURE

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 465

A focus on development of reading, writing, and speaking skills and on the interpretation of texts in their historical and cultural context.

SLAVIC 102

Introduction to speaking, listening, reading and writing in Russian, with an introduction to Russian culture.

SLAVIC 755

Topics in Russian and Slavic literature.

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.