School of Arts and Sciences and Hajim School of Engineering					Modern Languages & Cultures - Russian
Course Section Listing	Course	Course Title					Term	Credits	Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-215811	RUSS 267-01	Soviet Cinema					Spring 2026	4.0	Open
Schedule:		Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date MW 200 PM 315 PM 01/20/2026 05/10/2026
Enrollment:		Enrolled      0	Capacity      18
Co-Located:		CLTR 267-01 (P), CLTR 467-01, FMST 293-01, FMST 493-01, RSST 267-01, RUSS 267-01
Instructors:		Rita Safariants
Delivery Mode:		In-Person
Description:		The Russian revolution and the establishment of the USSR as a communist state coincided with the advent of cinema, which Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin deemed “the most important of the arts.” Bolstered by a centralized, ideologically driven film industry, Soviet film embodied both avant-garde experimentation and Socialist Realist conformity while defining the boundaries of cinematic language and giving rise to some of the world’s most influential filmmakers like Eisenstein, Vertov, and Tarkovsky. This course is a chronological overview of Soviet cinema from its beginnings to the collapse of the USSR that will explore the ways that filmmaking shaped national and political identity of the Soviet Union. Students will approach films as both works of cinematic art and as cultural/historical artifacts, considering how these two ways of “thinking about film” relate to one another and what they reveal about the conflicting ideologies and anxieties of the Soviet experiment.
Offered:		Fall Spring Summer