RUSS-3241 (3) Red Star Trek: Russian Science Fiction Between Utopia and Dystopia

Examines Russo-Soviet fiction literature and film. Within this popular genre, writers conceive and criticize social utopias, thus creating works situated between the poles of utopia and dystopia. Through discussions of Soviet and post-Soviet science fiction, utopian and distopian alike, the course introduces a Russo-Soviet "alternative modernity" and studies its historical developmental. All readings are in English. Taught in English. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.