RUSS 120. Russian Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science fiction enjoyed surprisingly high status in Russia and the Soviet Union, attracting such prominent mainstream writers as Evgenii Zamiatin and Mikhail Bulgakov. In the post-Stalinist years of stagnation, science fiction was a refuge from stultifying official Socialist Realism for authors like Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Since the end of Soviet literary censorship, speculative fiction has continued its important role in public discourse, while fantasy (formerly banned from official publication) has emerged as an important genre in both young adult and mainstream literature.
Humanities.
2 credits.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Russian
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/russian

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