RUSS6714A-L24
Popular Sovietology: Ideaology
Popular Sovietology
Popular Sovietology: Ideology, Politics, Culture & Everyday Life in USSR
It has become popular to compare Putin’s Russia to the USSR, but I have noticed that most experts drawing these comparisons either never lived under the communist regime or were school children in 1991, when the Soviet Union fell apart. I was 36 years old then and have experienced Soviet life on the fullest scale. This course presents and analyzes various aspects of the communist empire – from Marxist ideology and the Stalinist “deep state” to everyday life and culture, lifestyle and education, health care and consumerism, foreign policy and national relations. Many of the featured issues – especially when it comes to arts and cultural affairs, youth problems and lifestyle – are first-hand accounts by someone who has “been there”. More than 50 episodes of “Popular Sovietology” are now available on YouTube and are very popular among attentive Russians. Counts as a course in culture and civilization.
It has become popular to compare Putin’s Russia to the USSR, but I have noticed that most experts drawing these comparisons either never lived under the communist regime or were school children in 1991, when the Soviet Union fell apart. I was 36 years old then and have experienced Soviet life on the fullest scale. This course presents and analyzes various aspects of the communist empire – from Marxist ideology and the Stalinist “deep state” to everyday life and culture, lifestyle and education, health care and consumerism, foreign policy and national relations. Many of the featured issues – especially when it comes to arts and cultural affairs, youth problems and lifestyle – are first-hand accounts by someone who has “been there”. More than 50 episodes of “Popular Sovietology” are now available on YouTube and are very popular among attentive Russians. Counts as a course in culture and civilization.
- Term:
- Summer 2024 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session
- Location:
- McCardell Bicentennial Hall 505(MBH 505)
- Schedule:
- 2:20pm-3:10pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (Jul 4, 2024 to Aug 16, 2024)
- Type:
- Lecture
- Instructors:
- Artemiy Troitskiy
- Subject:
- Russian
- Department:
- Russian
- Division:
- Language School
- Requirements Fulfilled:
- Civ Cul & Soc
- Levels:
- Non-degree, Graduate
- Availability:
- View availability, prerequisites, and other requirements.
- Course Reference Number (CRN):
- 60477
- Subject Code:
- RUSS
- Course Number:
- 6714
- Section Identifier:
- A