2020-2021 Catalog

RUSN 274 Russia's War Epics

Focusing on Russian literature's greatest depictions of war this course follows the evolution of war literature in Russia as it transforms from the folk epic to the Romantic tale of adventure to the bloody scenes of Tolstoy's War and Peace into the Modernist portrayal of moral ambiguity in Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry.

Credits

4 units

Core Requirements Met

  • Regional Focus