SLA 260 REVOLUTION AND CULTURE

An interdisciplinary examination of the revolutionary impulse in Russian history. The course focuses on four distinct historical moments: the reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725), the Decembrist uprising of 1825, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and includes analyses of memoirs, historical accounts, secondary literature, prose fiction, poetry, films, propaganda posters, and visual art.