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RUSS 239 The Warped Soul of Putin’s Russia 6 credits
What is Russia’s problem? Why is the country famous for its great “soul” and culture waging a bloody war and becoming increasingly anti-Western? This course explores the cultural mythology that characterizes the state of contemporary Russian society and its “soul,” using critical approaches from trauma and memory studies, as well as theories of ressentiment and nostalgia. Authors to be studied include ideologues of Putin’s Russia (Surkov, Prilepin), its critics (Sorokin), and other writers, artists, and filmmakers who reflect, define, question, and challenge the direction in which country is moving and give it a cultural diagnosis. In English.
In translation
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RUSS 239.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Victoria Thorstensson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 109 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FHasenstab 109 2:20pm-3:20pm
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