The History of Ideas in Russia: From Official Nationality to Solzhenitsyn's Neo-Slavophilism

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course examines some of the main currents in Russian intellectual history from the middle of the nineteenth century through the 1990s. Topics include classical Slavophilism and early Westernism, Populism and Nihilism, Anarchism, Marxism, Leninism, Socialist Realism, anti-Stalinism, Glasnost, neo- Westernism (Sakharov), and neo-Slavophilism (Solzhenitsyn). CALENDAR NOTES: RECOMMENDED: RUSN 2022.03/2023.03 or HIST 2021.03/2022.03 CROSSLISTED: HIST 3096.03 FORMATS: Lecture | Discussion