ELEM BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN
Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepares students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Aleksandar Boskovic
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY CZECH II
Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepare students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Harwood
CULPA: 4
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ELEMENTARY POLISH II
Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepares students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Caes
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FIRST-YEAR RUSSIAN II
Grammar, reading, composition, and conversation.
- MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
- MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
- MTWR 6:10 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Madeline R Tingle
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Instructor:
Alla Smyslova
CULPA: 20
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Instructor:
Uma Payne
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Instructor:
Alexey Shvyrkov
Info - 5 points
ELEMENTARY UKRAINIAN II
Designed for students with little or no knowledge of Ukrainian. Basic grammar structures are introduced and reinforced, with equal emphasis on developing oral and written communication skills. Specific attention to acquisition of high-frequency vocabulary and its optimal use in real-life settings.
- MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yuri Shevchuk
CULPA: 4 Info - 4 points
INTER BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN
Prerequisites: BCRS UN1102 or the equivalent. Readings in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian literature in the original, with emphasis depending upon the needs of individual students. This course number has been changed to BCRS 2102
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aleksandar Boskovic
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
INTERMEDIATE CZECH II
Prerequisites: CZCH UN1102 or the equivalent. Rapid review of grammar. Readings in contemporary fiction and nonfiction, depending upon the interests of individual students.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Harwood
CULPA: 4
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INTERMEDIATE POLISH II
Prerequisites: POLI UN1102 or the equivalent. Rapid review of grammar; readings in contemporary nonfiction or fiction, depending on the interests of individual students.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Caes
Info - 4 points
SECOND-YEAR RUSSIAN II
Prerequisites: RUSS UN2101 or the equivalent. Drill practice in small groups. Reading, composition, and grammar review.
- MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yulia A Kim
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Instructor:
Alex Pekov
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INTERMEDIATE UKRAINIAN II
Prerequisites: UKRN UN1102 or the equivalent. Reviews and reinforces the fundamentals of grammar and a core vocabulary from daily life. Principal emphasis is placed on further development of communicative skills (oral and written). Verbal aspect and verbs of motion receive special attention.
- R 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Yuri Shevchuk
CULPA: 4 Info - 4 points
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
An introduction to the study of language from a scientific perspective. The course is divided into three units: language as a system (sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics), language in context (in space, time, and community), and language of the individual (psycholinguistics, errors, aphasia, neurology of language, and acquisition). Workload: lecture, weekly homework, and final examination.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
John H McWhorter
CULPA: 26
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THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN II
Prerequisites: RUSS UN2102 or the equivalent and the instructors permission. Enrollment limited. Recommended for students who wish to improve their active command of Russian. Emphasis on conversation and composition. Reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes. Lectures. Papers and oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian.
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tatiana Mikhailova
Info - 4 points
TOLSTOY AND DOSTOEVSKY
Two epic novels, Tolstoys War and Peace and Dostoevskys The Brothers Karamazov, will be read along with selected shorter works. Other works by Tolstoy include his early Sebastopol Sketches, which changed the way war is represented in literature; Confession, which describes his spiritual crisis; the late stories Kreutzer Sonata and Hadji Murad; and essays on capital punishment and a visit to a slaughterhouse. Other works by Dostoevsky include his fictionalized account of life in Siberian prison camp, The House of the Dead; Notes from the Underground, his philosophical novella on free will, determinism, and love; A Gentle Creature, a short story on the same themes; and selected essays from Diary of a Writer. The focus will be on close reading of the texts. Our aim will be to develop strategies for appreciating the structure and form, the powerful ideas, the engaging storylines, and the human interest in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. No knowledge of Russian is required.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Liza Knapp
CULPA: 28
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Resistant Mind: Colonial Power, Optics,
“Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other,” writes Toni Morrison. The immersion in the Other’s inner self is one of the most valuable experiences we derive from reading fiction, but how, exactly, is this immersion effect created? What makes it possible for us to know fictional characters more intimately than we know our closest friends? Is it not slightly disturbing and even unethical to expose a subject, albeit fictional, as radically as the fiction writer exposes and studies the hero? This course surveys a variety of ways in which the private life and the consciousness of the Other can be represented through discursive practices of literature, film, and photography. Drawing its perspective from postcolonial studies, formal narratology, and poststructuralist criticism, this course examines how different methods of narrating the Other participate in constructing an ethics of power and resistance within a work of art. We read and view a diverse selection of works ranging from the classics of Russian and American fiction to postcolonial photography and documentary productions which experiment with perspective and power dynamic. No prerequisites.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vera Senina
Info - 3 points
RUSSIAN FOR HERITAGE SPKRS II
Prerequisites: RUSS V3430 or the instructors permission. This course is designed to help students who speak Russian at home, but have no or limited reading and writing skills to develop literary skills in Russian. THIS COURSE, TAKEN WITH RUSS V3430, MEET A TWO YEAR FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT. Conducted in Russian.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alla Smyslova
CULPA: 20
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Advanced Ukrainian Through Literature, M
ADVANCED UKRAINIAN
This course is organized around a number of thematic centers or modules. Each is focused on stylistic peculiarities typical of a given functional style of the Ukrainian language. Each is designed to assist the student in acquiring an active command of lexical, grammatical, discourse, and stylistic traits that distinguish one style from the others and actively using them in real-life communicative settings in contemporary Ukraine. The styles include literary fiction, scholarly prose, and journalism, both printed and broadcast
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yuri Shevchuk
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
What We Do in the Shadows: A History of
This course looks at nighttime as an object of inquiry from an experiential, historical, religious, literary, and cultural perspectives, introducing the students with the growing field of night studies. It covers the Early Modern and the Modern Periods and centers primarily on Eastern Europe and East Central Europe, with a secondary focus on Jewish Literature and Culture in these regions. The course caters for students who are interested in in night studies, in the history and culture of Eastern Europe, students who are interested in Jewish (Hebrew and Yiddish) Studies, as well as students who are interested in the intersection of history and literature.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Offer Dynes
Info - 3 points
PRAGUE-SPRING 1968-FILM & LIT
The course explores the unique period in Czech film and literature during the 1960s that emerged as a reaction to the imposed socialist realism. The new generation of writers (Kundera, Skvorecky, Havel, Hrabal) in turn had an influence on young emerging film makers, all of whom were part of the Czech new wave.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Harwood
CULPA: 4
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- 3 points
DOSTOEVSKY,DEMONS,DICKENS
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Liza Knapp
CULPA: 28
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- 3 points
CLT HERITAGE: A GEOR CASE STUDY
This seminar brings anthropological perspectives to bear on the practices and ideologies of cultural heritage in the Republic of Georgia today, whee culture has proven a key political and economic pawn in a context of ongoing postsocialist struggle.......
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lauren E Ninoshvili
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
The Trickster in the Modern Russian Lit
“Trickster” does not simply mean “deceiver” or “rogue” (the definition of trickster according to the Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary), but rather “creative idiot”, to use Lewis Hyde’s expression. This hero unites the qualities of characters who at first sight have little in common — the “selfish buffoon” and the “culture hero”; someone whose subversions and transgressions paradoxically amplify the culture-constructing effects of his (and most often it is a “he”) tricks. The trickster is a typical comic protagonist – it is enough to recollect Renard the Fox from the medieval Roman de Renard, Panurge from François Rabelais’ The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, Cervantes’ Sanchо Panza, Beaumarchais’s Figaro, Gogol’s Khlestakov, Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Yaroslav Hašek’s Švejk, Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’ Producers, Bart Simpson and Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen), as well as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert along with many other comical characters of the same genre – to confirm this self-evident thesis
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Lipovetsky
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
CREATING ID-CONTEMP UKRN CULTR
This course presents and examines post-Soviet Ukrainian literature. Students will learn about the significant achievements, names, events, scandals and polemics in contemporary Ukrainian literature and will see how they have contributed to Ukraine’s post-Soviet identity. Students will examine how Ukrainian literature became an important site for experimentation with language, for providing feminist perspectives, for engaging previously-banned taboos and for deconstructing Soviet and Ukrainian national myths. Among the writers to be focused on in the course are Serhiy Zhadan, Yuri Andrukhovych, Oksana Zabuzhko and Taras Prokhasko. Centered on the most important successes in literature, the course will also explore key developments in music and visual art of this period. Special focus will be given to how the 2013/2014 Euromaidan revolution and war are treated in today’s literature. By also studying Ukrainian literature with regards to its relationship with Ukraine’s changing political life, students will obtain a good understanding of the dynamics of today’s Ukraine and the development of Ukrainians as a nation in the 21st century. The course will be complemented by audio and video presentations. Entirely in English with a parallel reading list for those who read Ukrainian.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Andryczyk
Info - 3 points
ADVANCED POLISH II
Prerequisites: two years of college Polish or the instructors permission. Extensive readings from 19th- and 20th-century texts in the original. Both fiction and nonfiction, with emphasis depending on the interests and needs of individual students.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Caes
Info - 3 points
Narrative and Repetition: Circling in Ti
An introduction to central concepts in narrative theory: plot, archetype, myth, story vs. discourse, Freudian analysis, history and narrative, chronotype and personal narrative. These are explored in the context of sustained investigation of a particular plot device: the time loop. Examples come from Russian modernist fiction, Soviet and American science fiction, and film. We compare being stuck in a time loop with being lost in space - a theme found in personal narratives shared orally and online, as well as in literary fiction. Students develop a final paper topic on time loop narrative of their choice.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica E Merrill
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
LANG DOCUMENTATION/FIELD MTHDS
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 In light of the predicted loss of up to 90% of the world languages by the end of this century, it has become urgent that linguists take a more active role in documenting and conserving endangered languages. In this course, we will learn the essential skills and technology of language documentation through work with speakers of an endangered language.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith Landman
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
Agent of Change: Ukrainian Art Between R
The course will trace the appearance of the avant-garde on the territory of the Russian Empire with a focus on Ukrainian art as compared to Russian. Examining the art aspiring not only to reflect but to alter the reality originating both in the center and the periphery, the class will explore the array of strategies employed by art for that end. The foundational theories of avant-garde, non-conformism, and dissident art will be studied alongside the most celebrated and influential examples of innovative and radical art from the region. Beginning with socially minded realist practices, the class will consider the impact of the collapse of the Russian and then Soviet Empires on art and reflect on how the societal upheavals affect the understanding of the function and the definition of art. The appearance of Socialist Realism and the versions of opposition to it will be studied, from dissident undermining to neglect and escapism of the second avant-gardes. Ukrainian art of recent decades will be studied in the context of several revolutions (Granite, Orange, Euromaidan) that defined its contemporary history. The class is offered for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Knowledge of Russian or Ukrainian is not required.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Olena Martynyuk
Info - 3 points
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 How discourse works; how language is used: oral vs. written modes of language; the structure of discourse; speech acts and speech genres; the expression of power; authenticity; and solidarity in discourse, dialogicity, pragmatics, and mimesis.
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
John C Wright
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Thinking Socialism: The Soviet Intellige
While Soviet Union after the second World War is often figured as a country of “stagnation,” in contrast to the avant garde 1920s and the tumult of Stalin’s 1930s, this figure is currently being re-evaluated. Political calm belied a rapidly changing society. The period developed a Soviet culture that was indubitably educated, modern, and mass. Despite, or within, or against the ever changing and ambiguous boundaries, censors, and dogmas, Soviet intellectuals generated cultural productions that reflected upon, processed, and critiqued the reality in which they lived and created. This course examines the development of this late Soviet “intelligentsia,” the first that was fully a product of Soviet society itself. Against a background of social history, we will select developments in various realms of cultural production for further examination, which from year to year may include philosophy, literature, political culture and ideology, art, and science.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adam Leeds
h-index: 2 Info - 3 points
ADV BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN
Prerequisites: BCRS UN2102 Further develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing, using essays, short stories, films, and fragments of larger works. Reinforces basic grammar and introduces more complete structures.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aleksandar Boskovic
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Chteniia po russkoi literature: Bulgakov
Master i Margarita
The course is devoted to reading and discussing of Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece
Master i Margarita
. Classes are conducted entirely in Russian
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Lipovetsky
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN II
- MWF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tatiana Mikhailova
Info - 4 points
PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 An investigation of the sounds of human language, from the perspective of phonetics (articulation and acoustics, including computer-aided acoustic analysis) and phonology (the distribution and function of sounds in individual languages).
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith Landman
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
LANGUAGE & SOCIETY
How language structure and usage varies according to societal factors such as social history and socioeconomic factors, illustrated with study modules on language contact, language standardization and literacy, quantitative sociolinguistic theory, language allegiance, language, and power.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
William Foley
h-index: 0 Info - 3 points
LITERARY TRANSLATION
Prerequisites: four years of college Russian or the equivalent. Workshop in literary translation from Russian into English focusing on the practical problems of the craft. Each student submits a translation of a literary text for group study and criticism. The aim is to produce translations of publishable quality.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ronald Meyer
Info - 4 points
Between History and Story: (Post) Memori
Between History & Story
One can easily call current times an age of memory and postmemory. The past, its relics and losses, its complicated ways of changing the present are evolving into a new cult – something that strongly defines our perception of reality. The receding border between the fiction and non-fiction writing, between the novel and autofiction, between writing and contemporary art once more turns literature into a realm of ongoing challenge. The documentary history of mankind (and the small-scale, intimate memories of its ordinary representatives) was never so important and influential. Non-fiction writing, from W.G. Sebald to Svetlana Alexievich, is becoming the main influence, echoed in dozens of other books, good and bad, but always facing the past as a main destination – making way into the lost world of previous generations. Could we apply the global trend to the field of contemporary Russian-language literature? How does post-memorial sensibility work in the frame of post-Soviet space with its troubled history and a sequence of traumas, visible and suppressed? The obsession with the past, the growing interest in personal accounts, the multiplicity of voices and stories – how does all that manifest itself in current literary context, from prose to non-fiction and poetry?
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Stepanova
Wikipedia Info - 1 points
Russian Formalism
Twenty-first century literary studies has seen a steadily growing interest in formalist literary theory. This trend has manifested in new movements, such as New Formalism, Historical Poetics, and Quantitative Formalism. This interest in formalism has been accompanied by a widely expressed desire for a better understanding of literary form, and to find ways to connect its study with cultural and political history. The archive of Russian Formalism, a protean movement which was active in the 1910s and 1920s, is a rich source for those interested in rethinking the concept of form today. Beginning in the 1960s and ‘70s, Russian Formalism was interpreted as the precursor to French Structuralism and Post-Structuralism. In this class we seek to recontextualize Russian Formalism—not in terms of the ideas of the Cold War period—but rather in light of the cultural and political milieu of revolutionary and Civil War era Russia. By connecting theories of form with the cultural and political contexts from which they emerged, our goal is to develop an understanding of form as a concept defined not only in aesthetic or linguistic terms, but also as a construct with sociopolitical import.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica E Merrill
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CULTURE
From Prince Valdimir’s Rus’ to the Post-Soviet Russia of Vladimir Putin, religion has remained a key factor in the making and remaking of Russian polity and culture. This course will explore how Orthodox Christianity—whether privileged or persecuted—came to dominate the Russian religious scene and shape Russian institutions, discourses, and lived experiences. Students will draw from a variety of primary and secondary sources—chronicles, saints’ lives, travel narratives, memoirs, letters, legal documents, icons and other ritual objects, films and fictional texts, as well as a large body of scholarly works and contemporary media materials—to examine how Russia’s Orthodox past and its rewriting into competing “histories” have been used over time as “legacies” shaping the present and the future.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Valentina Izmirlieva
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
DIR RSCH 20TH-C RUSSIAN LIT II
Directed Research in Russian Literature of the 20th Century.
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Instructor:
Mark Lipovetsky
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Instructor:
Jessica E Merrill
CULPA: 2 Info - 2-4 points