History of RussianCulture
History of Russian Culture , HIST H-1557/W
Spring 2015 Syllabus

Ostrowski, "Three Criteria of Historical Study"

Wilson, "Critical and Creative Thinking"


Lecture Presentations (PowerPoint)
  • Origins of Slavic Culture

  • Early Muscovy

  • Maksim Gorky and the Russian Revolution

  • The Arts in the 1920s and 1930s

  • Socialist Realism

  • Musical Comedy and the Gulag

  • The Thaw

    • Online Readings

  • Reading: Alexander Nevskii Packet

  • "The Facade of Legitimacy: Exchange of Power and Authority in Early Modern Russia"

  • Polin Rikoun, "Grinev the Trickster: Reading the Paradoxes of Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter"

  • Belinsky's Letter to Gogol

  • Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

  • Maksim Gorky, My Childhood

  • Sergei Eisenstein, My Vicious and Worthless Film