The Black Experience in Russia and the Soviet Union

A study of the African-American experience in Russia and the Soviet Union through the prism of autobiographies, biographies, diaries, travel journals, and memoirs from the 18th century to the present, of actors, American Communists, domestic servants, journalists, musicians, poets, political activists, publishers, stage designers, students and writers, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Harry Haywood, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and Richard Wright. Enrollment limited to 30.