SOVIET LIFE AND CULTURE THROUGH LITERATURE AND ART (FROM 1917)

LITTRANS 247

Exploration of periods, genres, individual writers, themes, problems, ect. in Russian and Eastern European literature.

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/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.

LITTRANS 233

Prerevolutionary Russian visual arts, architecture, music and cinema; provides an inside view of life in prerevolutionary Russia with the help of selected readings in Russian literature.