In this course, we will explore the relationship between culture and politics in Russia with the aim of explaining how they work together to shape elite and popular beliefs about Russias role in the world. We will examine the legacies of Russias imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet history; the tensions in Russias transitions from communism to capitalism and from authoritarianism to flawed democracy (and back to authoritarianism, again); the complexities of Russian nationalism; the realities of Russian civil society; the landscape of Russian media; and, of course, the rise of Vladimir Putin and his influence on the institutions and processes of politics in Russia today. We will analyze historical cases and contemporary news, art, scholarship, and popular culture and we will culminate the course with a look ahead at where we think Russia is going based on what we know about where it has been.
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