Professor Dominic Martin
Following the election of Donald Trump, Brexit, and the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook scandal, it has been declared that Euro-America has entered a ‘post-truth’ era. Academics, politicians and the media use this term, often connecting it to Russia, without explicit formulation of what it is or might be. This upper-level seminar discusses recent social scientific work in socialist and postsocialist countries to outline a coherent conceptual and empirical picture of a ‘post-truth’ situation. The works under discussion theorize the relationship between power and knowledge in socialism and postsocialism through the discursive productions of journalists, bloggers, actors, secret policemen, musicians, politicians, and others. Mapping the intricacies of knowledge, personhood, and expression within socialism and postsocialism, these authors present broader arguments about the epistemic roots of the collapse of state socialism in Eastern Europe and Russia and the rise of authoritarian populism. The seminar considers how socialist and postsocialist uses of media and linguistic productions foreshadowed, and latterly have come to intersect with, the production and consumption of media and information in Europe and the United States.
T 9:25am-11:15am
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E&RS 511 / GLBL 290 / GLBL 693 / PLSC 139 United States and Russian Relations Since the End of the Cold War
Professor Thomas Graham
This course examines the factors—political, socioeconomic, and ideological—that have shaped U.S.-Russian relations since the end of the Cold War, as well as specific issues in bilateral relations, including arms control, counterterrorism, energy, and regional affairs. The goal is to understand the way each country constructs relations with the other to advance its own national interests, and the implications of U.S.-Russian relations for global affairs.
M 1:30pm-3:20pm
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Improvement of high-level language skills through reading, comprehension, discussion, and writing. Focus on the study of language through major literary and cultural texts, as well as through film and other media. Exploration of major historical and cultural themes.
Prerequisite: PLSH 140 or equivalent.
TTh 2:30pm-3:45pm in LORIA 260
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HIST 221J / RSEE 231 Russia in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky 1850-1905
Professor Sergei Antonov
Russian politics, culture, and society ca. 1850 to 1905. Tsars’ personalities and ruling styles, political culture under autocracy. Reform from above the revolutionary terror. Serfdom and its abolition, culture, and daily life. Foreign policy and imperioal conquest, including the Caucasus and the Crimean War (1853-56). Readings combine key scholarly articles, book chapters, and representative primary sources. All readings and discussions in English.
Th 1:30pm-3:20pm
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RSEE 400 / PLSC 400 Legacies of Communism and Conflict in Europe
Professor Andrea Aldrich
This course examines the challenges of democratic transition and consolidation in Europe in an exciting way using contemporary and historical political research, documentary and dramatic film, a graphic non-fiction novel, and a field trip to MOMA in NYC (optional). Together we explore political themes like authoritarianism state collapse, nationalism, ethnic conflict, transitional justice, and democratic development through the turbulent political history of Southeastern Europe, which provides a solid theoretical foundation for the understanding of past and current events around the world.
TTh 9am-10:15am
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HIST 290 / RSEE 225 Russia from the Ninth Century to 1801
Professor Paul Bushkovitch
The mainstream of Russian history from the Kievan state to 1801. Political, social, and economic institutions and the transition from Eastern Orthodoxy to the Enlightenment.
MW 11:35am-12:50pm
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HIST 687 Russia, the USSR, and the World, 1855-1945
Professor Paul Bushkovitch
Political and economic relations of Russia/Soviet Union with Europe, the United States, and Asia from tsarism to socialism.
T 1:30pm-3:20pm
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RUSS 174 The Russian Works of Vladimir Nabokov
Professor Constantine Muravnik
An aesthetic reading of Vladimir Nabokov’s Russian works. Nabokov was a writer who first and foremost was interested in the question of the ontological significance of art and, consequently, in various modes of the artist’s relationship to the world.
Prerequisite: RUSS 150 or equivalent, or with permission of the instructor.
MW 1pm-2:15pm
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RUSS 465 / LITR 466 / FILM 429 War in Literature and Film
Professor Katerina Clark
Representations of war in literature and film; reasons for changes over time in portrayals of war. Texts by Stendahl, Tolstoy, Juenger, Remarque, Malraux, and Vonnegut; films by Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Joris Ivens, Coppola, Spielberg, and Altman.
W 7pm-9pm; Th 1:30pm-3:20pm
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RUSS 220 / HSAR 221 Russian and Soviet Art, 1757 to the Present
Professor Molly Brunson
The history of Russian and Soviet art from the foundation of the Academy of the Arts in 1757 to the present. Nineteenth-century academicism, romanticism, and realism; the Rusian avant-garde and early Soviet experimentation; socialist realism and late- and post-Soviet culture.
TTh 1:30pm-2:20pm
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RUSS 603 /HSAR 605 Russian Realist Literature and Painting
Professor Molly Brunson
An interdisciplinary examination of the development of nineteenth-century Russian realism in literature and the visual arts. Topics includ the Natural School and the formulation of a realist aesthetic; the artistic strategies and polemics of critical realism; narrative, genre, and the rise of the novel; the Wanderers and the articulation of a Russian school of painting; realism, modernism, and the challenges of periodization. Readings include novels, short stories, and critical works by Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Goncharov, Tolstoy, Chekhov and others. Painters of focus include Fedotov, Perov, Shishkin, Repin, and Kramskoy. Special attention is given to the particular methodological demands of inter-art analysis.
T 3:30pm -5:20pm
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RUSS 696 / FILM 775 Post-Stalin Literature and Film
Professor Katerina Clark
The developments in Russian and Soviet literature and film from Stalin’s death in 1953 to the present.
T 7pm-9pm; W 1:30pm-3:20pm
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SLAV 206 / SLAV 752 The Slavic Peoples and Their Languages: From Unity to Diversity
Professor Harvey Goldblatt
Examination of the linguistic and cultural history of the Slavs from their prehistoric period up to the formation of the diverse Slavic languages, the individual Slavic states, and their nation literatures.
M 1:30pm-3:20pm
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MUS 567 The Ballets Russes
Professor Chris Theofanidis
This course follows the evolution of the Ballets Russes, from its origins at the turn of the twentieth century as part of the Parisian “World of Art” exhibitions, in which Sergei Diaghilev imported contemporary art and experimental opera and dance productions from Russia, through its prime years (1909 to 1929) as an established ballet company, and ending in the company’s eventual breaking apart into groups settling in the United States and Monte Carlo. We further examine the subsequent impact of that splitting apart on the contemporary dance, music, and art scenes in the United States. The 1909 to 1929 years are the primary focus of the course, with an emphasis on the musical masterworks that were born of Diaghilev’s vision: works by Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Ravel, Satie, Respighi, Strauss, and of course, Stravinsky, among many others. We examine how Diaghilev brought together many of the most influential artists of the time, such as Braque, Picasso, Chanel, Matisse, Derain, Miró, de Chirico, Dali, and Cocteau, to collaborate with these composers. Students are given a brief primer on ballet and become familiar with the work of the important choreographers associated with the Ballets Russes, such as Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinksy (as both dancer and choreographer), Léonide Massine, and George Balanchine. Course requirements include a midterm, a final exam, and a paper.
W 4pm-5:50pm
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GLBL 580 Russian Intelligence, Information Warfare, and Social Media
Professor Asha Rangappa
This course explores the evolution of information warfare as a national security threat to the United States. Beginning with the KGB’s use of “active measures” during the Cold War, the course looks at how propaganda and disinformation campaigns became central to the Putin regime and how social media has facilitated their expansion and impact. Using Russia’s efforts in the 2016 election as an example, students examine the legal limitations on the FBI and intelligence community’s ability to counter such operations in the United States and explore potential policy solutions in the realm of intelligence tools, privacy laws, Internet regulation, and human “social capital.” Guest speakers include information warfare expert Molly McKew, Russian CIA officer John Sipher, producers of the recent documentary Active Measures, and others.
W 3:30pm-5:20pm
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GLBL 560 Religion and Global Politics since 1989
Professor Daniel Steinmetz Jenkins
This course examines the increasing influence that religion has had on global politics since the end of the Cold War. It attempts to narrate the rise and the fall of secular governance since 1989 in such places as central Europe, Russia, India, Turkey, and elsewhere. Concepts to be discussed include populism, traditionalism, post-secularism, religious freedom, etc.
Th 9:25am-11:15am
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PLSC 662 Strategy, Technology, and War
Professor Paul Bracken
Long term technology strategies of major powers (US, China, Russia, EU, India) for their impact on national security and world order. New technologies include cyberwar, nuclear modernization, mobile missiles, space war, AI, big data, Internet of Things. Institutional changes include Cybercommand, CIA Directorate of Digital Innovation, etc. Key issues include defense private equity, Silicon Valley and the Pentagon, digital transformation of the Navy, arms control and grand strategy. Relevant for students with an interest in technology management.
MW 11:35am-12:50pm