by bartmann | Mar 12, 2025
This course focuses on East European, Russian, and Soviet science fiction and fantasy, with readings drawn from the nineteenth century through the present. We will discuss these works as both anchored in their particular cultural-historical circumstances and also for...
by bartmann | Mar 12, 2025
Russia has never gotten Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago out of its system. This course will take us deep into the most controversial novel written during the Soviet era. Tolstoyan in its sweep, Dr. Zhivago is a stunning indictment of the system that attempted to engineer...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online! See Below for full details about our new Hybrid courses There are people and epochs in history that are never entirely put to rest, chief among them the figure of Stalin. Among many Russians today there remains a nostalgic longing for the...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Dostoevsky’s Demons (1872) – according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1970 – “are crawling across the whole world in front of our very eyes, infesting countries where they could not have been dreamed of” and “announcing their determination to shake and destroy...
