Mar 28, 2024  
2014-2015 Academic Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

RUS 295-01 - Special Topic: Modern Russia and the Culture of Revolution and Change

4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 295-01  and HUM 295-01 . This course offers an exploration of the intersection of culture and revolution in Russia, from its beginning in the 1900s to the present day. In the first part of the course, students will consider the vibrant literary and artistic world of the Russian Avant-Garde; the cataclysmic change ushered in by the Russian Revolution; and the establishment of the totalitarian doctrine of Socialist Realism. The second part of the course will explore the Soviet experience - Stalinism, World War II, the Thaw, ad the Cold War, as reflected in Russian aesthetic traditions. The final part of the course will consider the culture of post-Soviet Russia, which emerged in the revolution of 1991 and which has seen the rise of authoritarianism and Putin’s regime - and a new culture of dissent with the appearance of oppositional voices like those of Pussy Riot and other.

Prerequisite: one 100-level Humanities division course.
Instructor: Armstrong