| Credits | 1 |
| Restrictions | No 2022 2021 2020 Open to first-years only |
| Pre-Requisites | |
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| Core Area | Communities |
| Area of Inquiry | |
| Liberal Arts Practices |
Faculty Profile for Professor Nakhimovsky
Core Russia looks at Russian society, culture, and identity from Tsarism through the Bolshevik revolution and its aftermath and onto the present day. We study histories, primary texts (in translation), and also some fiction and poetry. Students will work on a paper that examines a contemporary phenomenon of their choice in the light of the past (though other possibilities are considered). Students who successfully complete this seminar will receive credit for CORE 187C and satisfy the Communities and Identities core requirement requirement.
Professor Alice Nakhimovsky has written many books on Russian literature and culture, concentrating on the Soviet period and Soviet Jews. Her present project is a book called “Parallel Lives,” about the intertwined lives of seven Russian Jews, from 1900 to 1953.