Russian 413 - Senior Seminar:The Literature of the Gulag

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Colgate University

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A.S. Nakhimovsky, Staff This course examines both fiction and non-fiction written in the context of the Stalinist gulag. Writers to be studied include Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, Ginzburg, Chukovskaya, Akhmatova, and Gorky (Belomorkanal). A historical perspective is provided through Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead. A background in 20th-century Russian literature and history is assumed. Primary reading in Russian. Prerequisite: offered to senior majors and minors in Russian and to other qualified students with permission of instructor.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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