Lesson 1, Feb. 7: Introduction
Motet, Syllabus. Buy books and xerox., make sure you can find the course page on the web, select topic for in class oral presentation. Read for the next class: Find and read any Russian Folk Tale; Carmichael, pp.vii-18
Lesson 2, Feb. 9: Mythology
Find info on the www: Russian Orthodox Church, Orthodox Calendar, what are other religions on the territory of Russian Federation, history of the Russian (Cyrillic) Alphabet.
Lesson 3, Feb. 11: Russian Orthodoxy
Read: Carmichael, pp. 19-30, find info on the www or in the library: Aleksandr Nevsky, Tatar-Mongols.Motet entry #1.
Lesson 4, Feb. 14: Invasions of Russia. The Rise of Moscow.
Read: Carmichael, pp. 31-46; Ivan IV (xerox)
Lesson 5, Feb. 16: The Origins of Autocracy. Ivan the Terrible.
Read: Carmichael, pp. 47-58; Razin's Rebellion (xerox).
Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m. - Film "Aleksandr Nevsky", BIH 148. Response paper on "Aleksandr Nevsky" is due Monday, Feb. 21.
Lesson 6, Feb. 18: Times of Trouble. Boris Godunov. Church Schism. First Romanovs.
Read: Carmichael, pp. 58-69; Peter The Great (xerox), Pushkin "The Bronze Horseman" (in Gibian, pp. 8-21). Motet entry #2
Lesson 7, Feb. 21: Peter the Great.
Read: Carmichael, pp. 71-87; Pugachev (xerox); Radischev (xerox)
Lesson 8, Feb. 23: Cathrine the Great
Read: Carmichael, pp. 91-111; The Decembrists (xerox), Motet #3
Lesson 9, Feb. 28: The Age of Alexander I and Nicholas I. 1812 War. Decembrists.
Read: Chaadaev (xerox); Danilevsky (xerox), Herzen in Gibian, pp.393-400. Motet #4.
Lesson 10, March 1: Westernizers and Slavofiles
Read: Pushkin, Griboedov, Lermontov in Gibian pp. 4-201, Tiutchev in Gibian p. 280, Motet #5
Lesson 11, March 3: Griboedov, Pushkin, Lermontov.
Read: Gogol in Gibian pp. 199-240, Saltykov-Shchedrin in Gibian pp. 609-617,
Turgenev in Gibian, pp. 334-336 and additional xerox.
Lesson 12, March 6: XIX century Prose. Realism
Read: Goncharov in Gibian pp. 295-333, Tolstoy in Gibian pp. 437-489, Carmichael pp. 115-134.
Lesson 13, March 8: XIX century Prose.
Read: Dobrolyubov (xerox); Nechaev-Bakunin (xerox); Chernyshevsky, excerpt from his What is to be done? (additional handout), Carmichael pp. 135-158.
Lesson 14, March 10: The Roots of Russian Radicalism
Read: Dostoevsky in Gibian pp. 410-436; Pobedonostsev (xerox), Tolstoy in Gibian pp. 529-531.
Lesson 15, March 13: Reaction to Radicalism: Dostoevsky, Alexander II and Alexander III.
Review for midterm exam, Motet #6
Lesson 16, March 15: Midterm exam
Read: Chekhov in Gibian pp. 532-607, Gorky 616-629. Motet #7
Thusday, March 16 - Film "Sidewhiskers" at 7:30 p.m. BIH 148.
Lesson 17, March 17: The Wanderers and the Mighty Handful
Read: The Silver Age, Blok, Gorky "The song of the Stormy..." (xerox), Bunin, Blok, Belyi in Brown.
Lesson 18, March 27: Fin de Siecle: Literature
Read: www information on the Russian Avant-Garde, Diagilev's Ballet..
Lesson 19, March 29: Arts, Music
Read: Carmichael, pp. 159-199, www on the First Russian Revolution (1905).
Thursday, March 30, 7:30, BIH 148 - Film "Rasputin". Response paper due April 5.
Lesson 20, March 31: Nicholas II. Revolution of 1905. WWI. Bolsheviks.
Reading: Chernov, Mayakovsky "Our March", Gorky "Days with Lenin", Trotsky (xerox), www on Bolsheviks, Lenin, October Revolution, Civil War.
Lesson 21, April 3: Revolutions of 1917. Kerensky. Lenin. Civil War.
Read: Carmichael, pp. 201-216, Babel "My First Goose", Olesha "Envy" in Brown. Motet # 8
Lesson 22, April 5: New State, New Man, New Art.
Reading: Kataev, Belov, Gorky (xerox), Bulgakov, Zoshchenko in Brown.
Lesson 23, April 7: Documentary film on the Russian Avant-Garde.
Lesson 24, April 10: Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Soviet State. Industrialization, Collectivization, Cultural revolution. Socialist Realism.
Stalin (xerox), Carmichael, pp. 216-231, Mandel'shtam Nadezhda in Brown, Shalamov in Brown.
Lesson 25, April 12: Stalin
Read: Pavlov, Simonov, Sholokhov (xerox)
Lesson 26, April 14: Film "The Inner Circle"(independent screening, on reserve in Sunderland Video Library). Response paper due April 19.
Lesson 27, April 17: WWII
Read: The Party and The Arts, The destruction of Soviet Genetics (xerox) Motet #10
Lesson 28, April 19: Khrushchev's Thaw.
Lesson 29, April 21: Brezhnev's Stagnation. Afgan War. Dissidents.
Read: Vladimov, Voinovich in Brown, Shukshin (xerox), Zinov'ev (additional xerox). Motet #11
Thursday, April 20, 7:30, BIH 148 - film "Brother". Response paper due April 28.
Lesson 30, April 24: Soviet Underground.
Read: Who won the Cold war (xerox), find info www on Gorbachev, perestroika, glasnost.
Lesson 31, April 26: Gorbachev. Collapse of the Soviet Union.
Read: Yavlinsky (xerox), find info www on Yeltsyn.
Lesson 32, April 28: Yeltsyn. New Russia. Post Modernism
Reading assignment to be assigned.
Lesson 33, May 1: Russia's Present and Future
Reading assignment to be assigned.
Lesson 34, May 3: Oral
Reports.
Lesson 35, May 5: Final
Discussion.
Final Exam: Monday, May 15, 9-12, BIH 117
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