Minor in Russian Studies - Solzhenitsyn Seminar RUSN 3099   Solzhenitsyn Seminar
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn is one of the most controversial and influential Russian writers of the twentieth century. His life spanned the entire Soviet period and even now his creative oeuvre continues unabated. Solzhenitsyn’s books are an unique blend of literary imagination, philosophical reflections, memoirs and witness-bearing, historical conscience and chronicle. This seminar will study several of his more important historical works; these may include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, First Circle, Lenin in Zurich, Gulag Archipelago, August 1914 and subsequent volumes of the cycle.
FORMAT: Seminar
CROSS-LISTING: HIST 3099.03