RUSS 217 - Sinner or Satan?: Writing Stalin in Russian Literature

Next Offered: 2011-2012
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 HU, CD, WR
The image of Joseph Stalin has permeated Soviet and post-Soviet culture from the nineteen-thirties to the present day. In this course we will compare the official state-created image to a host of unorthodox depictions of the man and his legacy. Featured are satiric works by Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Voinovich, Fazil Iskander, Vassily Aksyonov, Sergei Dovlatov, Viktor Pelevin, as well as subversive works by Anna Akhmatova, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Siniavsky and other writers from the underground. Lecture discussion format.

 
Instructor: A. Forman
Consent of the Instructor Required? No
Prerequisites & Notes
No knowledge of Russian required.