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3.00 Credits
09X, 10X: D.L.S.A.+ This course represents the work done in the phonetics classes and in the conversation classes at the University of St. Petersburg. Credit for this course is awarded to students who have successfully completed the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program in Russia. Prerequisite: membership in the L.S.A. Program. WCult: W.
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08F, 09F: 9L A continuation of the 1-2-3 cycle, this course is the first of the intermediate language courses offered by the Department. The course prepares the student for further upper-level study of the language. It includes intensive review, introduction to new grammatical topics, as well as reading, composition and conversation. Prerequisite: Russian 3 or equivalent. Rakova.
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3.00 Credits
28. 09W, 10W: 12 29. 09S, 10S: 12 This sequence completes the cycles of second-year Russian. Special emphasis is placed on such difficult areas as participles, aspects and verbs of motion. The course includes extensive reading, video work and vocabulary building. Prerequisite: Russian 23 or Russian 27, or permission. Rakova, Somoff, Gronas.
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3.00 Credits
09S, 10S: 2A Nineteenth-century Russian prose culminated in the masterpieces of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov. Through works such as Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment and The Cherry Orchard, these writers expanded the boundaries of the genres in which they worked, even as they exposed the acute social problems of their time. Their work is distinguished not only by the sharpness of the character analysis but also by the compassion with which the analysis is conducted. This course examines the process by which this literature acquired its unique configuration. Taught in English. Open to all classes. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Kopper.
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3.00 Credits
09W, 10W: 10 This course examines the impact which the turbulent history of twentieth-century Russia had on literature and on writers struggling to defend their integrity. The century began with Russian Modernism, out of which came experimental masterpieces in all the arts. This movement was terminated in 1930 by Stalin, who imposed harsh controls under the aegis of Socialist Realism, which dominated the arts until Stalin's death in 1953. Since then, Russian writers have gradually liberated themselves from the demands of the censors to produce a literature as articulate and exciting as the great novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Readings include such novels as Zamyatin' s We , Bulgakov ? The Master and Margarit a, Pasternak 's Doctor Zhiv ago and Solzhenitsy n's One Day in the Life of Ivan Deniso vich and literary artifacts of the contemporary counterculture (such as cyberpunk novels and rock-n-roll poetrTaught in English.* Open to all classes. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Somoff.
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3.00 Credits
09W, 09F: 2A Dostoevsky laid bare the tragedy of human existence and probed the innermost recesses of the human psyche to show the terrifying isolation of a human being separated from God. Revolted by a world in which innocent children suffer, Dostoevsky tested the meaning to be found in Christianity, personal responsibility and human solidarity. This course examines his major novels, with particular emphasis on the artistic expression of his philosophical views. Those views will be examined in the context of Russian intellectual and literary history. Readings include Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. Taught in English.* Open to all classes. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Kopper.
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3.00 Credits
09X: 2A From childhood to the end of his life, Tolstoy struggled to overcome his fear of death. As he himself put the problem, 'Is there any meaning in my life which the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy ' In his quest for bulwarks against that fear, he studied the great philosophers and he examined closely the value system of the peasants. He found temporary relief in war and in marriage, but the definitive solution always eluded him. The evolution of this theme, and the formal devices by which Tolstoy expressed it in his prose, will be traced in the major novels , War and Peac e an d Anna Karenina . The course will conclude with a brief examination of the prose that Tolstoy produced after his conversion.Taught in English. Open to all classes. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. The staff.
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3.00 Credits
08F, 10S: 2 This course is devoted to Russian drama and theatre from the 18th through the 21st century. We will read eight plays: Denis Fonvizin The Minor, Alexander Pushkin Boris Godunov, Nikolai Gogol The Government Inspector, Alexander Ostrovsky The Storm, Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya, Nikolai Erdman The Suicide, Mikhail Bulgakov The Days of the Turbins, and Alexander Vampilov The Elder Son, that are central to Russian literary and theatrical tradition and then discuss their most significant interpretations on both the Russian and the world stage.The meetings will be conducted in a non-traditional format. In our examination of the plays, we will attempt to model the process of stage production in accordance with the principles developed by Konstantin Stanislavsky-a celebrated Russian director whose approach to theatre transformed acting in Russia and beyond. There will be no papers for this class! Instead, we will engage in a variety of analytical and artistic tasks that will take us through some of the essential steps for the theatrical interpretation of a dramatic text: roundtable analysis; completion of a character's biography; the "magic if" and the "given circumstances" technique; etude work, eAll readings are in English. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Somoff.
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3.00 Credits
09W, 10W: 10 This course explores the emergence of ethnic identity and nationalism among the peoples of the Russian empire, the Soviet Union and their successor states. Drawing on anthropological and historical works, it examines the process of formation of a centralized multiethnic Russian empire and the liberation struggle of its nationalities prior to 1917. It then proceeds to the crucial period of 1917-1991 and explores the theory and practice of nationalities politics of the Bolshevik, Stalinist, and the late Soviet socialism. The dissolution of the USSR, the rise of interethnic conflicts, and the relations between ethnic groups in Russia and the successor states are the focus of the second half of the course, where several case studies are discussed in depth. Open to all classes. Dist: SOC; WCult: W. Kan.
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 09S
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