RU 152 Russian Literature's "Bloody Age": Twentieth Century Literature and Society

Instructor:	Professor KEVIN MOSS
Office:	Freeman FIC TL 7
Office Hours:	M Th 1-2 and by appointment
Office Phone:	5786
Email Address:	moss@middlebury.edu
Home Phone:	388-9664

Writers die for literature in Russia. This course is a survey of Russian literature from before the Revolution to the present. Beginning with Chekhov's stories, we will read supernatural tales, futurist utopias, and harrowing realistic accounts of life in the prison camps of Siberia. Official, emigre, and underground literature will be read to show the complex role of literature in Russian life and politics. LIT EUR