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### Fall, 2022

  [### Immigrant Memoirs: Women’s Lives from Eastern Europe to America

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2022 

 

 n this seminar we will read memoirs and personal essays (as well as a few poems and a play) written by women who had moved from eastern Europe to the United States (and in some cases to the UK and Canada, too). What did they think about their new countries? What happened to... 

 

  



### Fall, 2016

  [### Slavic 197: Dissidents from Plato to Pussy Riot

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2016 

 

   [### Slavic 193: Russian and Soviet Silent Film

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 **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…) 

 

 Explores filmmaking and film culture from Imperial to early Soviet Russia; from the former’s deep and deliberately slow psychological melodramas directed by Yevgeni Bauer to super-dynamic, politically charged montage movies that brought fame to directors as different as... 

 

   [### Slavic 191: Russian Orthodoxy

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 **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…) 

 

 This course examines the development and role of the Orthodox Church in Imperial Russia, with particular attention to belief and believers, to domestic and transnational contexts. Course will be taught by Visiting Professor, Gregory Freeze. 

 

   [### Slavic 170: War and Literature: Responses to WWII in Polish Culture

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 **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…) 

 

 The survey course War and Literature will introduce you to the works of Polish art and literature which resulted from direct experiences, collective memory, or an individual study of the Second World War, the event which demanded a radical revision of artistic means of... 

 

   [### Slavic 168: Post-Soviet and Post-Modern Ukrainian Literature

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 **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…) 

 

 Focus on Dibrova and the onset of Post-Sovietism; the post-modernist performance of Andrukhovych and the Bu-Ba-Bu circle; Izdryk; Prochasko; Kurkov, Zabuzhko and feminist and anti-feminist writing, Zhadan and the post-modern nostalgia for the USSR; Ukrainian literature in... 

 

   [### Slavic 145: Russian Literature in Translation

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 **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... 

 

   [### Slavic 129: Russia and the Representation of Race

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 **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…) 

 

 This course examines Russian and Soviet culture and the representation of race. We will approach this topic in terms of Russia’s own engagement with questions of race, focusing on episodes in the literary and cinematic representation of minority peoples throughout the empire... 

 

   [### Slavic 199 hfa (Fall)/hfb (Spring) - Russian Culture in Performance

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2016 

 

 A one-time only, collaborative course organized around the October, 2016 performance at Harvard of Petersburg’s Bolshoi Drama Theater’s production of The Visible Side of Life, a one-woman play about the poet Elena Shvarts. This is a year-long course, for four credits. The... 

 

  



  [### Slavic 154/Complit 153: Nabokov

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 Professor Justin Weir M 6:00-8:00 pm Course site Course description: This course on the major fiction of Vladimir Nabokov begins with his major Russian novels in English translation, including The Defense, Laughter in the Dark (Camera Obscura), Invitation to a Beheading, and...