Tolstoy’s Russia

Adele Barker
Spring 2012
THURSDAYS |  
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
January 26, February 2, 9, 16, 23, March 1, 8, 22, 29, April 5, 2012
Course Format: Hybrid
Location: Main Campus

This course is for those who love to read ! Beginning with his memoir Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth and then moving into War and Peace, we will discuss the world that the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy created in his fictions against the backdrop of the social and political ferment that would ultimately lead to the 1917 revolution. Tolstoy attempted to find the family happiness in his novels that eluded him in his own life. Reading him is to gain insight into the unique role that literature played in political and philosophical thought in nineteenth century Russia.

Required Reading

Please note that this list is revised and differs from the texts listed in the spring 2012 brochure! Please make sure that you purchase the following two editions!

Tolstoy, Leo. Childhood, Boyhood, Youth. Trans. Rosemary Edmonds. Penguin Classics, 1964. ISBN-10: 0140441395; ISBN-13: 978-0140441390

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude and Amy Mandelker. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN-10: 0199232768; ISBN-13: 978-0199232765

Meet Your Instructor

Professor Emerita

ADELE BARKER is professor emerita in the Russian Department and has taught Russian and Soviet literature and film for 35 years. She has lived, studied, and traveled widely throughout Russia and the Soviet Union. She is the author/editor of five books on Russian literature and popular culture and works in creative nonfiction. She has taught seven courses for the Humanities Seminars Program.

Location

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