Literature 2159 - Into the Whirlwind:Literary Greatness and Gambles under Soviet Rule

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Bard College

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RES This course examines the fate of the literary imagination in Russia from the time of the Revolution to the Brezhnev period. Students look at the imaginative liberation in writers such as Isaac Babel, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Mikhail Bulgakov; the struggle with ideology and the terror of the 1930s in the works of Yuri Olesha, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pilnyak, Lidia Chukovskaya, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Varlam Shalamov, and Yuri Tynyanov; and the hesitant thaw as reflected in Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago. Readings conclude with Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Venedikt Erofeev's Moscow to the End of the Line. Readings are supplemented with an examination of political and historical documents that provide a sense of context.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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