RUSSIAN, SOVIET, AND COMMONWEALTH STUDIES

Professors: John Bonin (Economics), Priscilla Meyer (Russian Language and Literature), Philip Pomper (History)

Associate Professors: Susanne Fusso (Russian Language and Literature, Chair), Peter Rutland (Government), Duffield White (Russian Language and Literature), Robert H. Whitman (Russian Language and Literature)

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Irina Aleshkovsky (Russian Language and Literature)

The major in Russian, Soviet, and Commonwealth Studies is designed to provide a broad background in Russian and Soviet history, politics, economics, and literature. To be accepted into the program, students must have a minimum overall average of B in courses related to the major.

Major program. Majors must complete three years of college-level Russian language study or the equivalent. The major program consists of eight and one half courses (over and above the language requirement), which should be distributed according to discipline. From the groups of courses listed below, students must take Russian 205 and Russian 206 together with Russian 211-212, and one seminar in Russian literature; two courses in Russian History, and two in Soviet politics and economics. In consultation with their advisers, majors may select substitutes for one of the courses listed below if the substitute is in a cognate discipline (for example, a sociology or anthropology course might satisfy one of the requirements in the social sciences). In addition, the major is required to concentrate in one of the three areas by taking a seminar in that field. By completion of the major, the student is encouraged to take a seminar in each of the three areas (for example History 268; Government 276; Russian Literature: any seminar taught in Russian). The field distributions are designed to familiarize the student with several distinctive modes of inquiry; the seminars to ensure a degree of mastery in each of them.

Study abroad. Majors are strongly encouraged to participate in either a summer or a semester program of study in the CIS, for which academic credit will be given.

Departmental honors. To qualify to receive honors or high honors in Russian and Soviet Studies, a student must write a senior thesis which will be evaluated by a committee consisting of the tutor, a second reader from the Russian and Soviet Studies faculty, and one additional reader from the faculty at large. This committee makes the final decision on departmental honors.

I. COMMONWEALTH AND EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

ECON 131 From Socialism to Capitalism: The Economics of Transition

ECON 235 Economics of Transforming Countries

ECON 248 Economics of Socialism

GOVT 273 U.S.-Soviet Relations

GOVT 274 Russian Politics

GOVT 277 Transition in East Europe

GOVT 283 East European Politics

II. RUSSIAN AND SOVIET HISTORY

HIST 217 Russian History to 1825

HIST 218 Russian History 1825-1917

HIST 219 Soviet History 1917-Present

HIST 268 The Intelligentsia and Power

III. RUSSIAN AND SOVIET LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

RUSS 101 and 102 Elementary Russian

RUSS 111 and 112 Intermediate Russian

RUSS 201 and 202 Third-Year Russian

RUSS 205 The 19th-Century Russian Novel

RUSS 206 20th-Century Russian Literature

RUSS 211 Readings in 19th-Century Fiction

RUSS 212 Readings in 20th-Century Fiction

RUSS 220 Autobiography and Memoir in Russian Literature

RUSS 240 Reading Stories: Theory and Practice

RUSS 250 Pushkin

RUSS 251 Dostoevsky

RUSS 252 Tolstoy

RUSS 253 Gogol and Stories of the 1830s and 1840s

RUSS 254 The French and Russian Novel

RUSS 256 Russian Formalism

RUSS 260 Prose of the 1920s

RUSS 261 19th-Century Russian Poetry

RUSS 262 Gogolian Tradition in Russian Literature

RUSS 263 Nabokov and Cultural Synthesis

RUSS 266 Russian Modernist Poetry

RUSS 269 Russian Drama

RUSS 301 Advanced Russian: History and Structure

RUSS 302 Advanced Russian: Stylistics