RUSS 620 High Stalinist Culture 2

3 credits · Languages,Literatures,Cultures · Graduate Studies · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

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…

Prerequisites

Permission of instructor

Restrictions

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.

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