To offer basic knowledge of the study of Russia and different approaches and point of views to Russian studies.
Contents
Cultural Studies: history, culture and literature; economic, political and social structures. Obligatory for those who intend to complete the whole programme.
Teaching language
English
Modes of study
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Study materials
The study material will be set by a book list given by the teacher in charge during every course or, for example, the following books.
Barker, A., Consuming Russia. Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev. 1999;
Hellberg-Hirn, E., Soil and Soul. The Symbolic World of Russianness. 1998;
Engel, B., Women in Russia, 1700-2000. 2004;
Pilkington, H., Russia's Youth and its Culture. 1994;
Kelly, C. and Shepherd, D. (eds.), Russian Cultural Studies. An Introduction. 1998;
Lahusen, T., Kuperman, G. (eds.), Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika. 1993;
Burawoy, M. & Verdery, K. (eds.), Uncertain Transition.Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World. 1999;
Epstejn, M.N., After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture. 1997;
Figes, O., Natasha’s Dance. A Cultural History of Russia. 2002;
Service, R., History of Modern Russia from Nicholas II to Putin. 2003;
Rotkirch, A., The Man Question. Loves and Lives in Late 20th Century Russia. 2000;
Kelly, C. and Shepherd, D. (eds.), Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution, 1881-1940. 1998.