SLAV 370/570: War and Violence Russian Literature and Film

The course explores and analyze literary and cinematic accounts of violence during major historical events such as World War II, Soviet collectivization, political purges, genocide, and Soviet-Afghan war. We will consider Soviet/Russian literature and films, including works by Isaac Babel, Andrei Platonov, Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Sergei M. Eisenstein and Aleksei Balabanov.