RUS312   Politics and Culture in the USSR 1917-38   (20 credits)

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An examination of the relationship between political and cultural questions in the early years of the USSR. Focus will fall on the USSR as a multinational state and the place of Russia within that state and society rather than focusing exclusively on Soviet Russia. Topics covered will include class, gender and ethnicity; literacy and educational reform; the politics of language in a multi-national state; nationalism and internationalism; morality and law; art and society; religion and society; conceptions of 'Cultural Revolution'.

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