Russia

INT U443 - Topics in Russian Studies

Covers special topics in Russian studies. (4 Credit Hours)

HST U285 - Russian Civilization

Examines the origins of Russian culture in Eastern Orthodoxy and relations with the Byzantine Empire, and the subsequent evolution of Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg as cultural/political centers, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Includes readings in medieval Russian literature and nineteenth-century fiction, with consideration of the development of music and the visual arts. Conducted in English. (4 Credit Hours)

HST U286 - History of the Soviet Union

Surveys social, political, economic, demographic, and cultural developments in the former Soviet Union since 1917: the legacies of war and revolution; the civil war between the Communists and the anti-Communists; famine; the New Economic Policy; competing perspectives on the new regime; the rise of Stalin; the Cultural Revolution; collectivization and industrialization; the Purges; World War II and its impact; the "two camps" and the origins of the Cold War; the Soviet Union and the new East European system; Khrushchev; de-Stalinization; intellectuals and the "thaw"; the Cuban missile crisis; the demise of Khrushchev; Brezhnev and the period of stagnation; the Gorbachev Revolution; Yeltsin; nationalism; and the dissolution. (4 Credit Hours)

HST U313 - Gender and Revolution in Russia and China

Surveys the complex interrelationships between socialist ideology, gender, and ethnicity in Russia and China during the twentieth century in this comparative study of women and gender in two socialist societies. Examines the ways in which Communist revolutionaries confronted national traditions of subordination in their efforts to transform women's conditions in Russia and China. Although vast differences exist between the two countries, there are several important points of comparison that provide critical material: deep-seated patriarchal traditions, socialist revolutions in which women's equality was pushed to the forefront against "backward" national traditions, and modern postrevolutionary backlashes against women's rights in both countries. (4 Credit Hours)

HST U385 - Russian Literature in Translation

Surveys and analyzes the major works of Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with emphasis on the historical context. Selected writers include Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. (4 Credit Hours)

HST U386 / LNR U386 - History of Soviet Cinema

Surveys the emergence and development of the film industry in the USSR. Examines the political, economic, ideological, and artistic sources of Soviet cinema and their relationship to Russian culture and history. Directors include Eisenstein, Vertov, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Kozintsev, Kalatozov, and Tarkovsky. (4 Credit Hours)

HST U387 - Soviet Secret Police

Explores a vast array of primary and secondary sources, supplemented by literature and film, and traces the roles of the domestic and international branches of the Soviet secret police throughout its seventy-year history. Explores the role of ideology in Soviet clandestine organizations; the foundations of Soviet policing; political terror and denunciations; informants' networks; recruitment of agents at home and abroad; the British spy scandals of the 1930s-1950s; Soviet intelligence successes and failures in World War II; the origins of the Cold War; the atom spy networks; the popular culture of "spy mania" in the McCarthy era; the Cuban missile crisis; the Brezhnev era; the KGB and the Soviet collapse; and spies and spying in the post-Soviet era. (4 Credit Hours)

HST U486 - Commissars and Managers: Soviet Economic History

Provides an economic history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the present. Working in lectures and the computer lab, students use tactics and methods of modern business, economics, and management strategy as a means to understand, interpret, and evaluate Soviet economic policies and the history of Soviet economic development. Special themes include discussions of the purge of industrial managers as "wreckers"; the labor incentives of _Stakhanovism_-the Stalinist star system for extraordinary labor productivity; the economics of forced labor and the Gulag; the Second World War; financing the Cold War; the black market; corruption; and the central role played by former communists in the transition to capitalism (_nomenklatura_ privatization). (4 Credit Hours)

HST U680 - Topics in Russian History

Covers special topics in Russian history. (4 Credit Hours)

HST U681 - Topics in Soviet History

Covers special topics in Soviet history. (4 Credit Hours)

LNR U285 - Russian Civilization

Designed to offer the student a view of Russian culture and civilization; includes guest lectures, films. Conducted in English. (4 Credit Hours)

LNR U385 - Russian Literature in Translation

Surveys and analyzes in English the major works of Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with emphasis on the historical context. Selected writers include Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. (4 Credit Hours)

LNR U386 / HST U386 - History of Soviet Cinema

Surveys the emergence and development of the film industry in the USSR. Examines the political, economic, ideological, and artistic sources of Soviet cinema and their relationship to Russian culture and history. Directors considered include Eisenstein, Vertov, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Kozintsev, Kalatozov, and Tarkovsky. (4 Credit Hours)

POL U450 - Government and Politics in Russia

Presents an analysis of the roots of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and studies problems of political development after communism. Emphasizes the introduction of democracy, the movement toward a market economy, the reorganization of the military, and the control of interethnic strife. (4 Credit Hours)

POL U455 - Russian Foreign Policy

Presents an analysis of the goals, methods, and achievements of Russian policy in the post-Soviet era toward Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the Middle East, Central and East Asia, and the United States against the background of Soviet behavior toward these areas in the recent past. (4 Credit Hours)

SOC U215 - Society and Culture in Russia

Focuses on contemporary Russian society. Emphasizes the social, economic, and political reforms of the Gorbachev period and the ways in which the Soviet Union has evolved since 1917 and in the post-Soviet period. (4 Credit Hours)