The Living & the Dead: The Great Patriotic War in Russian Cultural Imagination

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This course is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45. Students will explore the cultural myth of the war, created in the 1960-80s. The materials will include literary texts, documentaries, photographs, and films. We will focus on three major themes of this myth: 1. moral strength and courage; 2.respect for Russia's military past; and 3. the rise of national consciousness.