FOUNDATION IN SOVIET, EMIGRE, AND POST-SOVIET LITERATURE (~1930-PRESENT)

SLAVIC 709

Course Description

Covers Soviet, Emigre, and Post-Soviet periods of Russian literature. Engage with the movements and conceptual issues shaping and influencing the production of Russian/Soviet literary texts from 1917 until the present day: e.g., realism, socialist realism, exile (internal and external), dissidence, postmodernism.

Prerequisties

Graduate/professional standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average

21.83% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

20% from Historical

A Rate

100%

30.43% from Historical

Class Size

-6.67% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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