RUSSL 4172
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- Schedule of Classes - May 19, 2024 7:32PM EDT
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RUSSL 4172
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.
Tolstoy is impossible. An aristocrat who renounced the privileges of wealth and rank. A man of titanic appetites who repudiated meat, alcohol and sex. A Christian who did not believe in God and tried to rewrite the Gospels. An anarchist who ruled his estate like an ancient patriarch. A writer of genius who thought literature was evil and a waste of time and referred to his greatest novel as "garbage." A pacifist who described the frontline experience of soldiers in the most careful, loving detail. In Tolstoy's imaginative universe, we may find the origin of contemporary conflicts and anxieties about money, about love and about power. But Tolstoy's modern consciousness was not made in Paris or New York - Tolstoy was made in late imperial Russia, notoriously the least modern country in nineteenth century Europe. How, then, did Tolstoy happen? How can we account historically for the contradictions that informed his epic project of self-fashioning? In this seminar, we will see Tolstoy at work in his single-handed creation of a counter-culture at war with the social and political currents of his time - and of ours.
When Offered Spring.
Distribution Category (HA-AS, HST-AS)
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 4172, SHUM 4172
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall 498
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Litvak, O
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 369
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Litvak, O
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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