The Bolshevik. Boris Kustodiev. Oil on canvas. (1920). (The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. This image is Public Domain.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood
MIT Course Number
21H.244
As Taught In
Fall 2012
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
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Course Description
This course analyzes Russia's social, cultural, and political heritage in the 18th and 19th centuries, up to and including the Russian Revolution of 1917. It compares reforming and revolutionary impulses in the context of serfdom, the rise of the intelligentsia, and debates over capitalism. It focuses on historical and literary texts, especially the intersections between the two.
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