Learning outcomes

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

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.

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