RUSS 400: Contemporary Post-Soviet Life

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Explores the “fall of communism” and how the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have transformed since 1989. Through a variety of methods, explores survival and creation of new cultural and political practices within the market relations, commodification, and nationalisms in the post-Soviet era. Covers a wide range of topics such as nationalism, oligarchs, workers, gender, the self, religion, environmentalism, misinformation, memory of the socialist past, and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Offered by Modern & Classical Languages. Limited to three attempts.

Mason Core: Mason Core, Mason Apex, Capstone, Synthesis, Writing Intensive in Major

Recommended Prerequisite: Recommended that students have completed 85 credit hours prior to enrollment in the course

Schedule Type: Lecture

Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.