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A survey of modern Russian culture in its historical context. Topics include cultural and social revolutions, the Red Avant-Garde, Socialist Realism, the creation of the New Man, the Great Terror, the totalitarian system and its collapse, ethnic identity and ethnic conflicts, Russian rock and pop music, post-Communist Russia. Mr. Ungurianu. Open to all classes. All readings and discussions are in English. Two 75-minute periods, plus regular film screenings.
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In this course we read and discuss a number of classic short stories by such Russian masters of the genre as Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Babel, and Olesha. Mr. Klimoff. Satisfies college requirement for a Freshman Writing Seminar. Two 75-minute periods.
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Review of the basics of grammar and analysis of more complex grammatical phenomena through the study of literary, historical, and newspaper texts, composition, and discussion. The department. Prerequisite: Russian 105-106 or permission of instructor. Four 50-minute periods plus one hour of oral practice.
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Aspects of Russian film, drama and performing arts. Topic for 2008/09a: Masterpieces of Russian Drama. A study of classic Russian plays from the nineteenth and twentieth centures, including works by Pushkin, Gogol, Ostrovsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Mayakovsky and others. Mr. Ungurianu. All readings and discussion in English. Topic for 2008/09b: Russian Cinema in its European Context. A survey of Russian cinema from the 1920's to our days. Films considered include the early masterpieces directed by Eisenstein, Dovzhenko, Vertov and others, productions of the Stalin era, movies dating from the "Thaw" and the following two decades, including the great works of Tarkovsky and Paradjanov, flims from the years of "glasnost" and beyond. Readings include critical and theoretica articles by filmmakers and literary scholars. Given in Engish. Mr. Firtich Prerequisite: One of the following courses: Russian Studies 135, 152, 165, 169, Film 175, or permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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Individually designed for Russian majors and other students with some knowledge of Russian. Students in this course attend the same lectures and discussions as those in Russian 135, but are required to do part of the work in Russian. By permission of instructor.
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Individually designed for Russian majors and other students with some knowledge of Russian. Students in this course attend the same lectures and discussions as those in Russian 152, but are required to do part of the work in Russian. By permission of instructor.
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Topic for 2008/09: Soviet Ideology in Literature. A close reading of novels, plays, and poetical works that attempted to reflect the ever-evolving ideology of the Soviet regime. Authors represented include Fedor Gladkov, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Andrei Platonov. Mr. Klimoff All readings and discussion in English. Prerequisite: One of Russian 169, 152, 135, 165, or permission of the instructor.
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1.00 Credits
Aspects of the Russian literary tradition-including authors, genres, and thematic emphases-and the place of this tradition in world literature.Not offered in 2008/09.
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3.00 Credits
Program to be worked out in consultation with an instructor. The department.
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1.00 Credits
or b.Senior Thesis
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