Mar 28, 2024  
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2017-2018 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HUM 220 - Soviet Art and Music

3 Credits


Beginning with some brief background on the late Czarist period and late Romantic music by Tchaikowsky, the course proceeds through the revolutionary periods, examines politics, poetry of Anna Akhmatova, music of Prokofiev, then focuses primarily on the Stalin years and the music of Shostakovich. Students will view and discuss the documentary film, Shostakovich vs. Stalin–The War Symphonies, a short work of Solzhenitsen, One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich, and the novel, City of Thieves by David Benioff. The concluding period, death of Stalin through the dissolution of the Soviet State, is addressed through The Ransom of Russian Art by John McPhee, the long poem, “Zima Junction” by Yuri Yevtushenko, and late musical works of Shostakovich.
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