RUSS202; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.

Introduces students to reading literary texts in Russian through a survey of literature from the 1920s, a key period that witnessed the creation of a post-revolutionary society. We will read and discuss worksby a diverse range of writers (Zoshchenko, Babel, Ilf & Petrov, Bulgakov, among others) and strive to understand the "New Soviet Person." This is both a language and literature course; we will work towards developing Advanced-level proficiency while meaningfully engaging with these fascinating literary texts. Taught in Russian.