RUSSIAN LIFE AND CULTURE THROUGH LITERATURE AND ART (TO 1917)

LITTRANS 202

Examines Russian prose fiction, Anton Chekhov to the end of the 20th century.

LITTRANS/SLAVIC 266

Exploration of various topics - periods, genres, individual writers, themes, problems, etc. in Russian and Eastern European literature.

LITTRANS 203

Examines the era of 19th-century Russian prose fiction, roughly 1830-1900, from Aleksandr Pushkin to Anton Chekhov. More writing intensive thanLITTRANS 201.

LITTRANS 234

Postrevolutionary Russian and Soviet visual arts, architecture, music and cinema; provides an inside view of life under socialism with the help of selected readings in Soviet literature.

LITTRANS/SLAVIC 238

Take a literary journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, following the shifting cultural and political currents in Russia from the years preceding the 1917 Revolution to the rise of Stalinism in the 1930s. Topics in translation will include: revolutionary violence and terror, civil war and emigration, Futurism and the birth of Russian avant-garde art, Soviet feminism and the engineering of the "New Man," technological utopias and totalitarian dystopias, literature and early Soviet economic policy.