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RUSS 620. High Stalinist Culture 2.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

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.
  • 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.

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