#  Slavic 145: Russian Literature in Translation 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2016 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 

 

 

 

A survey of major works of fiction from Pushkin through Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. Key themes include Russia's encounter with East and West; urban and rural life; the writer and the state; generational conflict and continuity; religion and science; reform and radicalism; and the collapse of empire. Primary materials are supplemented by readings in cultural and intellectual history.

All readings in English.

Taught by Oleh Kotsyuba.