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RUSSIAN PRISONS: IN AND BEYOND IMAGINATION

Course Code:
RUSS 235
Active Term:
Spring
/ Randomly
Course Description:

From the Muppets to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to the television show "Stranger Things," Russian prisons feature in the Western imagination as male-dominated spaces of totture, gangs, seclusion, and secrecy. Against such imagined backdrops are real-life stories that emerge in English-speaking media of jailed political opponents, out-of-favor oligarchs, and ex-American servicemen and athletes facing serious prison time. This course investigates the context and sources of the imagination of Russian prisons as well as the experiences and challenges in the search for transparency and justice in Russia's fraught history of crime and punishment. Discussion, readings and other media are in English. No knowledge of Russian necessary.

Credit:
3.0
Instruction methods:
Lecture
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