Russian 388
The Soviet Experience
Full course for one semester. The course will explore Soviet
history, literature, and culture from a specific perspective:
reviewing society’s efforts to organize lives and experience as
reflected in literature and the arts. Topics include conceptions of
time and space (reforms of calendar, organization of industrial
time, city and house planning, communal living); family, sexuality,
and gender; Stalinist terror and forms of resistance to terror; and
the revision of historical experience. In addition to selected
literary texts, the course will examine architectural designs,
legal codes, personal letters, diaries, memoirs, and art.
Prerequisite: students who wish to take the course for Russian
credit must have completed Russian 220 or obtain the consent of the
instructor. Lecture-conference. Cross-listed as Literature
388.
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