RUSS 326 - Literature of Dissent from Stalin to the Present

3-4 HU, CD, WR
Second Semester. An examination of the development of literary dissent in the USSR from the dream of an era of High Stalinism through the Krushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev years to the post-Soviet period. Reading and discussion of works by official, dissident, and émigré writers including Akhmatova, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Dovlatov, Iskander, Petrushevskaia and Pelevin.

Prerequisites & Notes
[Next offered 2007-2008]

Credits: 3 to 4 hours