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

SLAVIC 702

Readings of Russian Literature in the 18th century and beyond.

SLAVIC 707

Covers masterworks of the 19th century and the broader literary, historical, political, intellectual and cultural contexts in which they arose and which they shaped.

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.

SLAVIC 701

Readings of Russian Literature from the Byzantine though the 17th century.

SLAVIC 708

Introduction to various trends in Russian Modernist literature from the 1890s through the 1930s.