Soviet Literature from 1917 to 1953

Survey of Soviet literature and culture from the Bolshevik revolution to the death of Stalin, with particular emphasis upon intersections between politics, history and aesthetics. Texts by Akhmatova, Babel, Blok, Bulgakov, Gan, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Malevich, Platonov, Zamiatin and others, as well as films by Eisenstein, Vertov, and Alexancrov. Enrollment limited to 30.