Russian Culture Ii

Introduction into Russian history and culture from the end of the Nineteenth century to the present. The course deals with different aspects of the history of Russian culture from the end of the Nineteenth century to the present. One of the issues will also be the description of the social, political, cultural and literary life of the Russian emigration. Particular attention will be paid on the most important political, social, philosophical and aesthetic concepts, which were characteristic for the different periods of Russian culture. The most important cultural concepts which dominated the successive historical periods will be introduced and analysed on the background of the main events of political history. The principal cultural concepts are above all expressed in written literature, therefore we experience them through the study of literary sources. Thus, the story of Russian literature constitutes a privileged field of research in order to scrutinize these concepts.