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Overview

Russian (Arts) : The novels, films, art and architecture, pageantry and rhetoric of Stalinist Russia. Socialist realism as an aesthetic doctrine, utopian blueprint, target of parody, amalgam of a submerged avantgarde and state-controlled pop culture, precursor of the postmodernist simulacrum. Total(itarian) art both accommodates and erodes its underlying ideology.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: Beraha, Laura A (Winter)

• Winter

• Given in English

• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RUSS 430 or RUSS 510

• There will be 2 lectures per week (taken with undergraduates enrolled in RUSS 430) and one graduate-student-only tutorial per week.